With health anxiety we often engage in thinking errors when interpreting symptoms and bodily sensations. It can be helpful to use socratic dialogue (a CBT strategy) to challenge thoughts and improve thinking patterns.

With health anxiety, we tend to overestimate the likelihood and severity of getting a disease as well as underestimate our ability to cope with disease. We want to use cognitive strategies in order to help challenge biased assumptions. One CBT strategy is called "examine the evidence" and allows you to challenge to distorted or biased thoughts.