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Cognitive Therapy Treatment For Health Anxiety
By Karen Hastings, Edinburgh
Health anxiety refers to having a preoccupation with a fear of having a serious illness or disease,
despite medical investigations that show the person is healthy. A person with health anxiety will often
misinterpret normal physical sensations as a sign of serious illness. For example, flu-like symptoms
may be misinterpreted as a sign of HIV and tests that indicate the person is HIV negative may be
discounted as unreliable.
Health anxiety can be treated effectively with CBT therapy, Edinburgh. The approach used is very
similar to that used for treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This involves helping the person with
the anxiety to realise that the current way they are dealing with the worrying health thought and feeling,
actually keeps the problem going. Factors that keep the problem going include: trying to block the
thought, giving health thoughts over –importance such as “It means I will never get better”, constantly
seeking reassurance from others, reassuring self with certain phrases or thoughts, looking on the
Internet, seeing numerous health practitioners, stopping life activities and giving the thought lots of
attention.
CBT therapy, Edinburgh can help you to accept that in fact your problem is not that you have a health
problem and must constantly check whether this problem is real, but that your problem is that you
worry too much about your health and that this is what's keeping your anxiety going.
A CBT therapist, Edinburgh, will help you become habituated to your anxious health thoughts, which
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