Health Anxiety (Hypochondria)
Health anxiety is an excessive preoccupation with having or developing a serious illness, despite medical reassurance to the contrary.
What is Health Anxiety (Hypochondria)?
Health anxiety (formerly called hypochondria) involves persistent, distressing worry about illness. Checking symptoms online, seeking repeated medical reassurance or avoiding medical care altogether are all common patterns. CBT breaks the maintaining cycle.
Do you recognise this?
Effective treatments
These approaches are commonly recommended for Health Anxiety (Hypochondria).
Frequently asked questions
But what if I really am ill?
Health anxiety coexists with the real possibility of illness. A good therapist works on the anxiety response itself, not by dismissing your concerns but by helping you respond to them differently.
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