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9781593851460

It's Not All in Your Head How Worrying about Your Health Could Be Making You Sick--and What You Can Do about It

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  • ISBN13:

    9781593851460

  • ISBN10:

    1593851464

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-05-04
  • Publisher: The Guilford Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $42.67

Summary

Where do you go for help when no one believes you're really sick? The doctors can’t explain your symptoms, but you know there’s something wrong because you can sense it in your body. Living with the specter of an unresolved health issue isn't just painful, it's isolating. The preoccupation and stress it causes can disrupt your career or interfere with personal relationships. If you continually experience symptoms of illness, or worry a lot about disease, you may be suffering from health anxiety--a condition that can produce physical effects of its own, including muscle tension, nausea, and a quickened heart rate. In this compassionate and empowering book, noted psychologists Gordon J. G. Asmundson and Steven Taylor provide simple and accurate self-tests designed to help you understand health anxiety and the role it might be playing in how you feel. Concrete examples and helpful exercises show you how to change thought and behavior patterns that contribute to the aches, pains, and anxiety you're experiencing. The authors also explain how to involve friends and family--and when to seek professional help--as you learn to stay well without worry.

Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Self-Help Book of Merit

Author Biography

Steven Taylor is a clinical psychologist and professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia.

Table of Contents

Understanding Health Anxiety
Do I Worry Too Much about My Health?
Body and Brain: It's Not All in Your Head
Do I Have Some Other Anxiety Disorder?
Sick and Sad: Am I Depressed, Too?
Breaking the Health Anxiety Cycle
Understanding and Managing Stress
Thoughts That Influence Your Anxiety and How to Change Them
Behaviors That Influence Your Anxiety and How to Change Them
Maintaining Your Gains
Dealing with Doctors
Helping Friends and Family Help You
Living Life and Maintaining Your Gains
Resources
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