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Improve Health Anxiety with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
How Cognitive Biases can Intensify Health Anxiety
When we hold dysfunctional beliefs about disease, information processing biases strengthen our beliefs. One type of information bias is the memory bias, in which we selectively recall threatening data. One way to correct biased information processing is to collect data to assess the accuracy of memories.
CBT for Health Anxiety: Facing Your Fears with Exposure and Response Prevention
People with health anxiety tend to see all bodily sensations and symptoms as dangerous. When symptoms or sensations emerge, people with health anxiety use "safety behaviors" to reduce their anxiety. In exposure therapy, one faces the feared stimuli (e.g., bodily sensations) without using safety behaviors.
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