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Safety Behaviors to Cope with Health Anxiety

Nov 09, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety, cognitive behavioral therapy, coping mechanisms, cycle of health anxiety, excessive checking, fear of disease, health anxiety, hypochondria, preventive behaviors, reassurance-seeking, safety behaviors, socratic dialogue, symptoms, thinking errors

There are 3 common safety behaviors that people with health anxiety engage in. It is important to identify these unhelpful behaviors in order to learn how to refrain from them. One can learn to not refrain from these behaviors through CBT, including exposure and response prevention.

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 Cognitive Biases can Intensify Health Anxiety

Oct 05, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety, biased information processing, bodily sensations, health anxiety, hypochondria, memory bias, symptoms

When we hold dysfunctional beliefs about disease, information processing biases strengthen our beliefs. One type of information bias is the memory bias, in which we selectively recall threatening data. One way to correct biased information processing is to collect data to assess the accuracy of memories.

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