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How Information Processing Biases can Increase Health Anxiety

Sep 23, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety, biased information processing, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, confirmation bias, core beliefs, hypochondria, memory bias, thinking errors

With health anxiety, we have unhelpful or inaccurate core beliefs about health and illness. These beliefs lead us to process information in a biased way. We tend to seek out "evidence" of our belief (e.g. that serious disease is everywhere) and we ignore or dismiss evidence to the contrary. It can be helpful to use a CBT technique and track your thoughts and assumptions in a thought record so that you can identify these patterns.

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

Sep 18, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth catastrophize, cognitive restructuring, death anxiety, fear of disease, fear of dying process, fear of unknown, health anxiety, socratic dialogue, thinking errors

When it comes to the dying process, people often fear being in intense pain, feeling humiliated, and burdening or hurting others. Many people have inaccurate assumptions about the dying process, making it important to evaluate and challenge those beliefs. Examining how palliative care might help with physical pain is one way to challenge one's assumptions about the dying process.

The 'Emotional Reasoning' Thinking Error and Health Anxiety

Sep 15, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth anxiety, catastrophize, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, emotional reasoning thinking error, hypochondria, thinking errors

Health Anxiety and the Emotional Reasoning Thinking Error

With health anxiety, an event happens, we have thoughts about that event, and then react to those thoughts. Learning to evaluate automatic thoughts and identify cognitive distortions is a critical skill for improving health anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps to improve health anxiety by reshaping dysfunctional thinking patterns, beliefs, and behaviors.

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