Professor David Veale and Dr Rob Willson: Overcoming Health Anxiety (#382)
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ERP: The Main Treatment for Health Anxiety
Treatment for health anxiety or most research step is to have a really good understanding of exactly what the problem is. You know, theory theory B theory is that I'm going to be dying from a severe neurological disease and that I better watch out and do all these things to monitor that. As opposed to theory B, it's a worry problem. It's an anxiety problem. All the things I do to treat it as a neurological disease actually keeps the problem going. So you have to retreat this as a worry problem, an anxiety disorder. And that means testing out your fears, facing up to your fears and acting according to your values - not according to how you feel living life to the
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