Health Anxiety (Hypochondria)

Health anxiety (sometimes called hypochondria) is when you spend so much time worrying you’re ill, or about getting ill, that it starts to take over your life.

Persistent worries about having an illness or physical problem, despite being found healthy in medical tests.

Health anxiety is when you spend so much time worrying you’re ill, or going to get ill, that it starts to take over your life. It’s related to obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).

  1. Check if you have Health Anxiety (NHS)
  2.  Case Study: Pauls fear of Cancer
  3.  Measuring the severity and impact of your Health Anxiety
  4. Treatment Overview
  5. Your specific Health Anxiety: baseline measure
  6. Putting things into perspective: What do you really want in life?
  7. Setting Goals
  8. Your triggers
  9. Theory A or Theory B?
  10. The solution is the problem
  11. Adrian’s Avoidance and Safety behaviours (Vicious Flower)
  12. More to come …