Professor David Veale and Dr Rob Willson: Overcoming Health Anxiety (#382)
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How to Deal With Anxiety and Compulsions
Health anxiety is often a fear that one has an illness or they're going to get an illness. It does tend to cluster around some very dreadful illnesses, things like cancer and heart disease but also things like motor neuron disease where people fear being locked in. People would tune into their bodies and try and feel for bodily changes from the inside. There's lots of internal scanning and focusing on sensations as well, which gives you lots of signal about your health. And then there are all sorts of different manifestations.
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