Description

How you can stop worrying about your health and enjoy life

This book not only helps sufferers to better understand the nature of the problem but also provides them with the skills necessary to overcome it and to regain quality of life
Professor Paul Salkovskis Professor of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford

Many of us have a tendency to worry unnecessarily about our health For some the anxiety becomes severe and persistent This can involve spending 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 CBT the approach taken in this selfhelp guide Using a structured stepbystep approach the authors explain how the problem develops how to recognise what feeds it and how to develop effective methods of dealing with it This book includes
Questionnaires case studies and exercises
Chapters on fear of death and on medication

Overcoming selfhelp guides use clinically proven techniques to treat longstanding and disabling conditions boith psychological and physical

READING WELL
This book is recommended by the national Reading Well scheme for England and Wales delivered by The Reading Agency and the Society of Chief Librarians with funding from Arts Council England and Wellcome
wwwreadingwellorguk

Series Editor Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper