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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)
Jan 04, 2024
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...
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Questions to Ask Yourself When Anxious about a Symptom
Questions to Ask Yourself When Anxious about a Symptom
Jan 04, 2024
With health anxiety we often engage in thinking errors when interpreting symptoms and bodily sensations. It can be helpful to use socrati...
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Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness
Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness
Jan 01, 2024
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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How Anxiety about Health can Disrupt Someone's Life

Sep 27, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  core beliefs,  cycle of health anxiety,  fear of disease,  health anxiety,  hypochondria,  safety behaviors,  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.

CBT for Health Anxiety: Facing Your Fears with Exposure and Response Prevention

Aug 31, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  bodily sensations,  cognitive behavioral therapy,  exposure,  health anxiety,  hypochondria,  safety behaviors,  symptoms
CBT for Health Anxiety: Facing Your Fears with Exposure and Response Prevention
People with health anxiety tend to see all bodily sensations and symptoms as dangerous. When symptoms or sensations emerge, people with health anxiety use "safety behaviors" to reduce their anxiety. In exposure therapy, one faces the feared stimuli (e.g., bodily sensations) without using safety behaviors.


The Pie Chart Method: A CBT Technique to Improve Health Anxiety

Aug 29, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety,  bodily sensations,  catastrophize,  cognitive behavioral therapy,  cognitive restructuring,  health anxiety,  hypochondria,  symptoms,  thinking errors
The Pie Chart Method: A CBT Technique to Improve Health Anxiety
When we have health anxiety, we tend to inflate the probability of serious disease, statistically speaking. CBT techniques can help you to see the likelihood of disease more accurately. The Pie Chart Method is one technique to help you consider the many non-catastrophic causes of symptoms.