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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)

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...

Questions to Ask Yourself When Anxious about a Symptom

Questions to Ask Yourself When Anxious about a Symptom

With health anxiety we often engage in thinking errors when interpreting symptoms and bodily sensations. It can be helpful to use socrati...

Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness

Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness

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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Safety Behaviors: How the Behaviors Intended to Reduce Health Anxiety Make it Worse

Apr 27, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety, coping mechanisms, health anxiety, hypochondria, safety behaviors

Safety Behaviors: How the Behaviors Intended to Reduce Health Anxiety Make it Worse

Safety behaviors are things some people do to reduce uncertainty and try and ensure good health.
Although people use safety behaviors to reduce anxiety, they increase anxiety over the long-term.
The vicious cycle of health anxiety can be interrupted by learning to refrain from the use of 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.

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