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How Information Processing Biases can Increase Health Anxiety
Sep 23, 2023
With health anxiety, we have unhelpful or inaccurate core beliefs about health and illness. These beliefs lead us to process information ...
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Fear of Death: How CBT Can Decrease Fears of the Dying Process
Fear of Death: How CBT Can Decrease Fears of the Dying Process
Sep 18, 2023
When it comes to the dying process, people often fear being in intense pain, feeling humiliated, and burdening or hurting others. Many pe...
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Health Anxiety and the Emotional Reasoning Thinking Error
The 'Emotional Reasoning' Thinking Error and Health Anxiety
Sep 15, 2023
With health anxiety, an event happens, we have thoughts about that event, and then react to those thoughts. Learning to evaluate automati...
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Fear of Death: How CBT Can Decrease Fears of the Dying Process

Sep 18, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth catastrophize,  cognitive restructuring,  death anxiety,  fear of disease,  fear of dying process,  fear of unknown,  health anxiety,  socratic dialogue,  thinking errors
Fear of Death: How CBT Can Decrease Fears of the Dying Process
When it comes to the dying process, people often fear being in intense pain, feeling humiliated, and burdening or hurting others. Many people have inaccurate assumptions about the dying process, making it important to evaluate and challenge those beliefs. Examining how palliative care might help with physical pain is one way to challenge one's assumptions about the dying process.

The 'Emotional Reasoning' Thinking Error and Health Anxiety

Sep 15, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  catastrophize,  cognitive behavioral therapy,  cognitive restructuring,  emotional reasoning thinking error,  hypochondria,  thinking errors
Health Anxiety and the Emotional Reasoning Thinking Error
With health anxiety, an event happens, we have thoughts about that event, and then react to those thoughts. Learning to evaluate automatic thoughts and identify cognitive distortions is a critical skill for improving health anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps to improve health anxiety by reshaping dysfunctional thinking patterns, beliefs, and behaviors.

The Pie Chart Method: A CBT Technique to Improve Health Anxiety

Aug 29, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  bodily sensations,  catastrophize,  cognitive behavioral therapy,  cognitive restructuring,  health anxiety,  hypochondria,  symptoms,  thinking errors
The Pie Chart Method: A CBT Technique to Improve Health Anxiety
When we have health anxiety, we tend to inflate the probability of serious disease, statistically speaking. CBT techniques can help you to see the likelihood of disease more accurately. The Pie Chart Method is one technique to help you consider the many non-catastrophic causes of symptoms.