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Improve Health Anxiety with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Memory bias with health anxiety

How Information Processing Biases can Increase Health Anxiety

With health anxiety, we have unhelpful or inaccurate core beliefs about health and illness. These beliefs lead us to process information ...

Fear of Death: How CBT Can Decrease Fears of the Dying Process

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 pe...

Health Anxiety and the Emotional Reasoning Thinking Error

The 'Emotional Reasoning' Thinking Error and Health Anxiety

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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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.

Try the “No Help” Experiment to Improve Your Health Anxiety

Apr 27, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety, behavioral experiments, bodily sensations, catastrophize, cognitive behavioral therapy, exposure, health anxiety, hypochondria, reassurance-seeking, safety behaviors, symptoms

Reassurance-seeking for health anxiety

With health anxiety, we often assume that we need to be symptom-free in order to be healthy, but this isn't true.
"Body noise" includes symptoms and bodily sensations that are due to normal, self-regulatory processes that are not a serious disease.
Behavioral experiments can help you refrain from "black-and-white thinking" when it comes to your health.