Overcoming Health Anxiety: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques

by David Veale, Rob Willson

Overview

Stop worrying about your health and enjoy life.

Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health. This can be worse in a time of global panic about pandemics. For some, the anxiety becomes chronic, and they may spend many hours checking for symptoms, seeking reassurance from others, surfing the internet for information about different diseases, or repeatedly visiting the doctor. It is distressing for them and for everyone around them.

In fact, health anxiety can be very successfully treated with cognitive behavioural therapy - the approach taken in this self-help guide. Using a structured, step-by-step approach, the authors explain how the problem develops, how to recognise what feeds it and how to develop effective methods of dealing with it.

- Includes questionnaires, case studies and exercises
- Based on proven CBT techniques
- Includes a chapter on fear of death and fear of vomiting

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849014205
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	11/26/2009
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	606,814
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Veale (Author)
David Veale is the author of Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Manage Your Mood, along with Rob Willson. He is a consultant psychiatrist in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Nightingale Hospital, London. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. His website is https://www.veale.co.uk. He has been helping people with depression and anxiety disorders for more than 30 years.

Rob Willson (Author)
Rob is the author of Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Manage Your Mood, along with David Veale. He is a cognitive behavioural therapist in private practice. He also works as a tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He holds an honours degree in Psychology, an MSc in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and a Postgraduate Diploma in Social and Behavioural Health Studies. He has been involved in treating people with depression and anxiety for the past twelve years.


DAVID VEALE is a consultant psychiatrist in cognitive behavioural therapies at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and a visiting professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.
ROB WILLSON is a cognitive behaviour therapist in private practice with over twenty-five years' experience. He has a special interest in anxiety and obsessional problems, including health anxiety.