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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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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.


A Proven Strategy to Reduce Health Anxiety

Jun 14, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  catastrophize,  cognitive behavioral therapy,  core beliefs,  health anxiety,  hypochondria,  thinking errors
A Proven Strategy to Reduce Health Anxiety
  • People with health anxiety hold maladaptive beliefs about health and illness.
  • Core beliefs influence how we interpret and react to symptoms and bodily sensations. Core beliefs aren't permanent; they can be changed.
  • Cognitive restructuring is a CBT technique that can be helpful in reshaping maladaptive beliefs about health into adaptive beliefs.

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.