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The essential book on Health Anxiety from the bestselling author of Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
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How you can stop worrying about your health and enjoy life. Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. For some the anxiety becomes chronic, and they may spend many hours checking for symptoms, seeking reassurance from others, surfing the internet for information about different diseases, or repeatedly visiting the doctor. It is distressing for them and for everyone around them. In fact, health anxiety can be very successfully treated with cognitive behavioral therapy – the approach taken in this self-help guide. Using a structured, step-by-step approach the authors explain how the problem develops, how to recognize what feeds it and how to develop effective methods of dealing with it. Accessible and reassuring Includes questionnaires, case studies and exercises Includes specific help for dealing with fear of death and fear of vomiting Based on proven CBT techniques Praise for Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: ‘[Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder] is an affordable and highly recommended read.’ The Psychologist
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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I have always had health anxiety, but during pregnancy it got really bad (I am now 28 weeks pregnant) so I started CBT and bought this book. This book really goes into the mechanisms of the hypochondriac's brain and helps you to see things more clearly and also suggests treatment, techniques and looks into medication. It is very important to feel someone understands and this book does just that, it makes you feel less alone by describing exactly the thought patterns which you can recognise as your own. I would absolutely suggest anyone who unfortunately has this problems to buy this.
PS I would also like to add that therapy is costing me 50 euro per session and the therapist is giving me advice which seems like a poor, less effective version of what is in this book!
PS I would also like to add that therapy is costing me 50 euro per session and the therapist is giving me advice which seems like a poor, less effective version of what is in this book!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an excellent book, recommended by other phobia sufferers. Practical and useful, easy to read, a cognitive behaviour therapy manual.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book to be of very little practical use, partly because, as other reviews have pointed out, the many tables and charts are difficult to read on a Kindle, but also because of the unhelpfully flippant tone of some of the sections. In particular, the chapter on overcoming fears of death contains such suggestions as 'Hold a death-themed party', and treats religious belief in a similarly casual way: if the reader is worried about going to Hell after death, then the authors will probably be there too, and can give him/her some therapy... This is not acceptable in what purports to be a serious self-help volume. There are also numerous misprints and grammatical slips which should have been picked up in editing (I have yet to buy a Kindle book which does not spell 'independent' as 'independant'). Altogether, for me, not a good buy - though at least it was in the sale!
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