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"people with health anxiety tend to use both avoidance and safety-seeking behaviors as a copying mechanism"

so true. a few years ago I was anxious that I would suffer anaphylactic shock bc of food I ate (I suffered anaphylactic shock more than once bc of food so it was a legit fear?) so I tended to avoid food that made me feel it could happen again even tho I knew it was safe to eat

I have health anxiety and I am trying to rewire my thoughts using similar techniques to the ones shown so far. Perhaps it means I'm on the right path

Am I considering all of the evidence or just the evidence that supports my assumption or fear?

In this book, you will learn a variety of CBT strategies to help you feel less anxious about your health and improve your overall quality of life.

This rigid classification also perpetuated the false assumption of mind-body dualism (i.e. belief that mind and body are entirely separate entities when they are inherently and inextricably interconnected) and the idea that any medically unexplained symptoms are psychogenic or ‘all in your head.’

Exactly what I like to read at the beginning of these book:
Although I do know what it is like to be consumed by these fears, I also know what it is like to feel better.