Dealing with Health Anxiety

Health anxiety basically refers to the experience of thinking that there may be a threat to your health, which consequently triggers your anxiety response. Such anxiety can impact on us in numerous negative ways. Below are the most common areas affected by health anxiety.

Program Sessions

Session 1: Understanding Health anxiety

Session 2: How health anxiety is developed and maintained?

Session 3: Breaking the Health Anxiety Cycle

Session 4: Dealing with anxiety provoking thoughts

Session 5: Adjusting health related rules and assumptions

Session 6: Reducing checking and reassurance seeking behaviors

Session 7: Challenging avoidance and safety behaviors

Session 8: Self-management

References

• Severe Health Anxiety in the Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders — Erik Hedman, Erland Axelsson.
• Illness anxiety disorder — Mayo Clinic Staff. (2015).
• Phenomenology of Health Anxiety — John R. Walker, Patricia Furer.