787: Has Anxiety Got You Seeking Reassurance
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
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Excessive reassurance seeking is common and can worsen symptoms in a range of anxiety and mood disorders. It includes excessive seeking medical care, internet searching, checking bodily symptoms, or using hidden cognitive reassurance such as covert counting in obsessive compulsive disorder. This backfires because it strengthens the belief that had reassurance not been sought, anxiety may have increased and the feared consequence occurred. Reassurance seeking is self perpetuating, and no empirical evidence against the occurrence of what was feared is observed. And how this is really making us worse.
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