Freedom from Health Anxiety: Understand and Overcome Obsessive Worry about Your Health or Someone Elses and Find Peace of Mind

Discover essential skills to liberate yourself from persistent anxiety about your health. Are you constantly worrying about your health, or the health of a loved one? Do you frequently check yourself for lumps, bumps, tingling, or pain? Do you find yourself endlessly looking up symptoms on the internet? Perhaps you find yourself asking others for reassurance or validation that youre okay, obsessing over health scares in the media, or monitoring your blood pressure on an hourly basis? No matter how your health anxiety manifests, it can be a crippling psychological burden. Endlessly ruminating about illness and death can affect all aspects of lifeat home, work, school, as well as the doctors office. And if youre obsessing over the health of a loved one, that can put tremendous pressure on the relationship. In Freedom from Health Anxiety, nationally recognized anxiety expert Karen Lynn Cassiday teaches you skills to conquer health anxiety, once and for all. Youll learn to switch from focusing on worst-case scenarios to appreciating the joy of the present momentregardless of health status. Using a blend of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), positive psychology, and the authors learned inhibition model, youll finally acquire the tools you need to take charge of your fear and break the cycle of stressing over youror your loved oneswell-being. Youll also learn effective methods for tolerating health uncertainty, getting in touch with your bodys cues, and rediscovering the pleasure of the present. Its time to find freedom from the obsessive fears that stand between you and true happiness. If youre ready to trade endless hours of online self-diagnosis (Goodbye, Dr. Google!) for a life filled with a genuine appreciation for each moment, this book will show you the way.