But when myths involve health issues, they can result in needless anxiety, avoidance behavior and inconvenience.

That would only point up his earlier needless anxiety.

More importantly, the report caused needless anxiety to all the women who have attended the centre.

Critics worry that burdening a 10-year-old with concern about high cholesterol levels can generate needless anxiety.

The myth is good for real estate agents, but it creates needless anxiety for everyone else.

The idiom is used when mocking a person's needless anxiety over an impossible, inconsequential, or inevitable matter.

"It has created needless anxiety for many patients," he says.

You'll just cause yourself needless anxiety by dwelling on alternate possibilities.

It would only cause them irritation and needless anxiety.

Then, angry with himself for yielding to such needless anxiety, he switched his thoughts elsewhere.