Overcoming worrying about your health
- The problem is not actually your health - it's your discomfort with not knowing what the future holds. It's possible to live well with an illness. Most people with serious or terminal illnesses enjoy life and live well, despite the knowledge of a future that contains illness.
- Understand what maintains your illness anxiety. Identify and practice the triggers that sustain your health anxiety and practice exposure therapy
- Decrease your reassurance-seeking. Gradually stop doing so much illness-related research and other checks.
- Reduce your avoidance of anxiety-provoking triggers.
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