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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

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.

How Information Processing Biases can Increase Health Anxiety

Sep 23, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety, biased information processing, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, confirmation bias, core beliefs, hypochondria, memory bias, thinking errors

With health anxiety, we have unhelpful or inaccurate core beliefs about health and illness. These beliefs lead us to process information in a biased way. We tend to seek out "evidence" of our belief (e.g. that serious disease is everywhere) and we ignore or dismiss evidence to the contrary. It can be helpful to use a CBT technique and track your thoughts and assumptions in a thought record so that you can identify these patterns.

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

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.

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