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Professor David Veale and Dr Rob Willson: Overcoming Health Anxiety (#382)

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The Differences Between OCD and Health Anxiety

If I didn't know this topic was health anxiety, I could easily think you were talking about OCD. That's- I know we have to draw the lines somewhere. How often are these? The terminology like OCD and health anxiety is helpful because it's a description of the top level. But another 50 years time, other people will do cuts for cake and a diagnostic cake in a slightly different way and it will be a little different. So it is just how things are divided at the moment. Products of committees, not products of nature.Yeah, very true. Yeah, so OCD and health Anxiety. Yes, there's sometimes a bit of an overlap like fears of contamination and the idea

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