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Recognize Your Ability to Cope with Illness

Jan 01, 2024 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth all or nothing thinking error, anxiety, catastrophize, cognitive behavioral therapy, fear of disease, health anxiety, hypochondria, underestimating coping

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, debilitating illness and death. But what if we learn to see ourselves as strong, resilient and capable of coping with any physical challenges that come our way?

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Improve Health Anxiety by Examining the Evidence for Your Thoughts

Dec 18, 2023 Posted by: Brittney Chesworth biased information processing, cognitive behavioral therapy, cognitive restructuring, examine the evidence, overestimating threat, underestimating coping

With health anxiety, we tend to overestimate the likelihood and severity of getting a disease as well as underestimate our ability to cope with disease. We want to use cognitive strategies in order to help challenge biased assumptions. One CBT strategy is called "examine the evidence" and allows you to challenge to distorted or biased thoughts.