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Improve Health Anxiety with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

How to Improve Death Anxiety with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

How to Improve Death Anxiety with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

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...

Questions to Ask Yourself When Anxious about a Symptom

Questions to Ask Yourself When Anxious about a Symptom

With health anxiety we often engage in thinking errors when interpreting symptoms and bodily sensations. It can be helpful to use socrati...

Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness

Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness

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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Improve Health Anxiety by Examining the Evidence for Your Thoughts

Dec 18, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth biased information processing, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, examine the evidence, overestimating threat, underestimating coping

Improve Health Anxiety by Examining the Evidence for Your Thoughts

With health anxiety, we tend to overestimate the likelihood and severity of getting a disease as well as underestimate our ability to cope with disease. We want to use cognitive strategies in order to help challenge biased assumptions. One CBT strategy is called "examine the evidence" and allows you to challenge to distorted or biased thoughts.

Health Anxiety & the Black-or-White Thinking Error

Dec 01, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth all or nothing thinking error, anxiety, biased information processing, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, fear of disease, health anxiety, hypochondria, socratic dialogue, thinking errors

Health Anxiety & the Black-or-White Thinking Error

People with health anxiety tend to engage in thinking errors when it comes to their health. One type of thinking error is black-or-white thinking or seeing health as dichotomous instead of on a spectrum. You can improve dysfunctional thinking patterns through challenging thoughts through socratic questioning.

How do You Interpret Symptoms and Bodily Sensations? Learn How Not to Catastrophize.

Oct 26, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth biased information processing, bodily sensations, body noise, catastrophize, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, core beliefs, health anxiety, hypochondria, symptoms

How do You Interpret Symptoms and Bodily Sensations? Learn How Not to Catastrophize.

Health anxiety leads us to assume all or most symptoms or bodily sensations are indicative of a serious disease. However, our bodies are "noisy." Learn about the common sources of body noise so you can reshape your beliefs around this and refrain from automatically assuming you have a serious disease.

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