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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)
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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Posts tagged "catastrophize"

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.

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.