HEALTH ANXIETY
- Techniques to cope with health anxiety and hypochondria
- 6 parts, self-paced
- For mobile, tablet or computer
- Developed by psychologists
Some anxiety about our own health is normal, but excessive health anxiety (or hypochondria) can lead to unbearable problems. This tool will help persons with excessive health anxiety to overcome their problems. Humans have many emotions, and most of them are signals and warning lights, that is, they are meant to protect us from dangers and accidents, and to help us if disasters occur. Anxiety is one of our emotions, and the anxiety response is often a friend in need. We couldn't do without it. But, it can be exaggerated until it becomes an enemy. It creates an invisible prison for the individual. In this tool, the user will have room to reflect on their own health and anxiety, and techniques and tasks that can reduce anxiety.
The tool was created by Ingvard Wilhelmsen, the doctor behind the hypochondriac clinic in Bergen, Norway.
*USD $149
- Content:
- Health Anxiety
- Worries & GAD
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Panic attacks
- Phobia
- Social Anxiety
- Depression
- Sleep Problems
- Exposure
- Self-Esteem
- Perfectionism
- Who is this tool for?
This tool is for people who find that their health anxiety is so strong that it creates problems for the daily life. It largely follows the progression author Ingvard Wilhelmsen uses in conversations with patients at the Hypocondriac Clinic in Bergen, Norway.
- Content of this tool
This tool helps you understand and manage excessive health anxiety. It consists of six parts:
- Intro
You learn what excessive health anxiety is, how to measure it, and how attention and catastrophic thoughts contribute to the problem.
- My Project
You reflect on your medical history, explore how uncertainty drives health anxiety, and define what you can and cannot control. You are encouraged to develop a new, healthier life project.
- Worrying
You examine how rumination, expecting the worst, and fear of relaxing maintain anxiety. You practice seeing what you can actually handle and shift focus toward constructive coping.
- Thoughts
You work with your attitudes toward illness, death, and disability. By recognizing thought patterns and the “catastrophic thinker,” you learn to meet thoughts with more flexibility and balance.
- Choice
You practice living with uncertainty by reflecting on three possible attitudes toward life. You explore what it means to genuinely commit to these attitudes in practice.
- Forward
You practice exposure to avoided situations, acknowledge that change takes time, and build a prevention plan to reduce relapse and strengthen new habits.
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- Intro
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