- Hypochondriac Tales: An Introduction
- My First Therapy Appointment for Hypochondria
- The Infected Gallbladder (Or: Why am I a Hypochondriac?)
- Believing I have Leukemia, then Melanoma, then Brain Cancer (When things really started to go downhill!)
- My Diagnosis of OCD
- Floaters and the Final Straw – Why I Finally Decided to Seek Therapy for my Health Anxiety
- A Decade of Anxiety and Hypochondria
- No, I don’t want to go Hiking. I might Break my Ankle. (Or: Learning the word “Catastrophizing”)
- Response Prevention for Health Anxiety OCD and Controlling my Compulsions (When I actually start to see improvements in my Health Anxiety and Hypochondria!)
- What is CBT and How does it Help Hypochondriacs?
- The “Checking” form of OCD and how it affects Health Anxiety
- The Question of whether to take Medication for Health Anxiety OCD / Hypochondria
- The Small “Wins” in my Battle against Health Anxiety OCD
- How CBT also Helped with my Fear of Flying
- Our “Lizard Brain” and how it Perpetuates Anxiety (and why being “rational” won’t help your anxious thoughts)
- My Aversion to Deep Breathing as a way to Help Anxiety
- The Setback in my Battle Against Health Anxiety
- Over-empathizing and Getting Anxiety from GoFundMe Pages
- How I Learned that Distraction is not a Good Method of Coping with Anxiety
- Being a Hypochondriac was Ruining my Life. Here’s How I got Better
- The Best Gift Ideas for People with Anxiety
- 8 Ways to Help a Hypochondriac Friend
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