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Are you consumed with the fear of disease? Living with health anxiety can look like:
- Ruminating over symptoms and envisioning worst-case scenarios
- Spending excess money and time at the doctor's office, urgent care or hospital
- Avoiding the doctor or avoiding anything that reminds you of disease or death
- Googling symptoms to identify any potential diseases you might have
- Asking friends or family repeatedly about health concerns
- Searching your body for concerning symptoms
- Living in fear of death
This book will help you address your health anxiety with exposure-based cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT.
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To those living with health anxiety:
Many people with health anxiety don’t realize they’re stuck in a cycle of problematic thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that not only keep their anxiety alive, but strengthen it over time. In this book, you will learn cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to help you better understand and interrupt this vicious cycle. CBT is the most evidence-based treatment available for health anxiety (see meta-analyses: 1, 2, 3). If you struggle with the fear of disease, please know you are not alone. And it can get better.
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About the Book...
Help, I’m Dying Again is a practical guide to understanding and overcoming health anxiety using evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) strategies. Whether you constantly Google your symptoms, jump from one specialist to another, or live in dread of a missed diagnosis, this book offers a roadmap to break free from the exhausting, vicious cycle of health anxiety.
What You'll Learn
Through a step-by-step process, you’ll learn to identify the beliefs and behaviors that keep health anxiety alive and how to change them. The tools in this book are designed to disrupt the problematic thoughts, beliefs and behaviors that keep you stuck in that seemingly never-ending cycle.
Examples of CBT strategies you will learn to begin reducing your health anxiety:
- Psycho-education to better understand the cognitive model of health anxiety
- Monitoring, evaluating and analyzing thinking and behavioral patterns
- Reshaping problematic thinking patterns through cognitive restructuring exercises
- Transform problematic behavioral patterns through experiments and exposure or fear hierarchies
- Modifying biased information processing through learning how to seek out and process environmental stimuli in new ways
- Using mindfulness exercises to improve improve attentional skills and stay present-focused
This book isn’t just a boring manual to describe techniques. It’s full of vivid real-life examples from people who have had similar experiences. Real-life stories to are used to demonstrate techniques as well as to emphasize that you are not alone and healing is possible.
Whether your health anxiety is loud and all-consuming or quiet and high-functioning, Help, I’m Dying Again meets you where you are. If you’re tired of overanalyzing every sensation, living under the threat of worst-case scenarios, or feeling like your days revolve around staying one step ahead of a health disaster, this book is for you.
What's Inside the Book...
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Understand Health Anxiety
Chapter 3: Reduce Errors in Estimation
Chapter 4: Recognize Ability to Cope with Disease
Chapter 5: Live More Comfortably with Bodily Sensations and Symptoms
Chapter 6: Stop Using Avoidance and Safety Behaviors
Chapter 7: Live More Comfortably with Uncertainty
Chapter 8: Find a Little Hope in Medical Resources
Chapter 9: Become Less Afraid of Death
Chapter 10: Improve Health Anxiety in the Face of a Medical Condition
ORDER NOWAbout Dr. Britney Chesworth
Britney is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice, focusing exclusively on the treatment of anxiety and anxiety-related disorders. She is also a mental health influencer and expert author for Psychology Today. Britney has a long personal history with all types of anxiety and has been particularly impacted by health anxiety since she was a little girl. Cognitive behavioral therapy played a pivotal role in her healing and growth.
Britney grew up in California and currently resides in Southern California with her husband and two children. She has over 15 years of experience treating clients with anxiety in child welfare, hospice, hospital, university, community mental health and private practice settings. Trained by the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy, Britney teaches graduate and undergraduate students and mental health professionals about using CBT, exposure therapy and other evidence-based interventions to help clients improve anxiety. Britney is passionate about using CBT to help others overcome all types of anxiety, given her personal history with it.
