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How to Improve Death Anxiety with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
How to Improve Death Anxiety with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Jan 04, 2024
Behind health anxiety often lies a fear of death or death anxiety. It is important to tackle this in order to improve health anxiety. The...
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Anxious about a Symptom
Questions to Ask Yourself When Anxious about a Symptom
Jan 04, 2024
With health anxiety we often engage in thinking errors when interpreting symptoms and bodily sensations. It can be helpful to use socrati...
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Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness
Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness
Jan 01, 2024
Health anxiety can lead us to have rigid views when it comes to our health. We assume that getting an illness is equivalent to serious, d...
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Safety Behaviors to Cope with Health Anxiety

Nov 09, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  cognitive behavioral therapy,  coping mechanisms,  cycle of health anxiety,  excessive checking,  fear of disease,  health anxiety,  hypochondria,  preventive behaviors,  reassurance-seeking,  safety behaviors,  socratic dialogue,  symptoms,  thinking errors
Safety Behaviors to Cope with Health Anxiety
There are 3 common safety behaviors that people with health anxiety engage in. It is important to identify these unhelpful behaviors in order to learn how to refrain from them. One can learn to not refrain from these behaviors through CBT, including exposure and response prevention.

How Anxiety About Health Can Disrupt Someone's Life

Apr 27, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  bodily sensations,  catastrophize,  cognitive behavioral therapy,  core beliefs,  excessive checking,  health anxiety,  hypochondria,  reassurance-seeking,  symptoms
How Anxiety About Health Can Disrupt Someone's Life
  • People with severe health anxiety hold dysfunctional or maladaptive beliefs about health and illness.
  • Dysfunctional beliefs develop early in life and are strengthened through reinforcement.
  • Dysfunctional beliefs enter one into a cycle of unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that worsens health anxiety.
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy aims to interrupt this cycle by modifying maladaptive beliefs, thinking errors, and safety behaviors.

Try the “No Help” Experiment to Improve Your Health Anxiety

Apr 27, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  behavioral experiments,  bodily sensations,  catastrophize,  cognitive behavioral therapy,  exposure,  health anxiety,  hypochondria,  reassurance-seeking,  safety behaviors,  symptoms
Reassurance-seeking for health anxiety
  • With health anxiety, we often assume that we need to be symptom-free in order to be healthy, but this isn't true.
  • "Body noise" includes symptoms and bodily sensations that are due to normal, self-regulatory processes that are not a serious disease.
  • Behavioral experiments can help you refrain from "black-and-white thinking" when it comes to your health.