Professor David Veale and Dr Rob Willson: Overcoming Health Anxiety (#382)
The OCD Stories
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How to Deal With Anxiety
It depends if you get like an OCD, it depends what you're avoiding. It may be things in the media to do with your health and other things that trigger you. David couldn't be more right to say that the starting point needs to be what's currently anxiety provoking or are you avoiding? Rather than therapy speeding, they've got to wheel out a bunch of tricks,. tried and tested tricks for any obsession and problem - including how things are designed. That's a bad starting point. For example, some women I've worked with who resist hugging their children, but fear that they might activate a sensation in their breast. They increased their doubt that maybe that reveals a tenderness or a
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