Understanding Health Anxiety
How Effective Is CBT at Treating Health Anxiety
Learn how effective CBT can be for health anxiety, what research shows, its limitations, how treatment works and what can influence outcomes.
25 September 2026Read →
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Understanding Health Anxiety
What health anxiety is, how it shows up in daily life, and why it feels the way it does. Articles to help you make sense of the cycle.
Understanding Health Anxiety
What Is the Best Therapy for Health Anxiety
Compare evidence-based therapies for health anxiety, including CBT, ERP, ACT and digital options, and learn how to choose appropriate support for you.
20 September 2026Read →
Understanding Health Anxiety
Health OCD vs Health Anxiety: What's the Difference?
Compare health OCD and health anxiety, including intrusive thoughts, compulsions, checking, reassurance seeking, overlap, assessment and treatment.
10 September 2026Read →
Understanding Health Anxiety
How to Help Someone with Health Anxiety
Learn how to help someone with health anxiety, respond to reassurance seeking, encourage healthy coping and set compassionate boundaries.
1 September 2026Read →
Understanding Health Anxiety
What Are the Physical Symptoms of Health Anxiety?
Learn about physical symptoms that can occur with anxiety, why health anxiety can make bodily sensations feel more noticeable, and how checking and reassurance can maintain the cycle.
25 August 2026Read →
Understanding Health Anxiety
How to Overcome Your Health Anxiety
Learn how to overcome health anxiety using evidence-based CBT strategies, including reducing checking, reassurance seeking and symptom searching and learning to tolerate uncertainty.
20 August 2026Read →
Understanding Health Anxiety
The Complete Guide to ERP for Health Anxiety
Exposure and Response Prevention can help reduce checking, Googling, and reassurance-seeking. Here's how ERP works for health anxiety.
1 August 2026Read →
Understanding Health Anxiety
How to Talk to Your Doctor About Health Anxiety
Tell your doctor about both your physical concerns and the anxiety surrounding them. Explain what you have noticed, what you fear, how often you check or seek reassurance, and how this affects your daily life. Ask your doctor to explain whether tests are needed, what happens next and when to follow up. The goal is to leave with a clear plan and access to suitable support, rather than complete certainty.
1 August 2026Read →
Understanding Health Anxiety
What Health Anxiety Actually Looks Like
Natalie Altman talks about the emotional toll of health anxiety and OCD, from late-night reassurance texts to why logic alone does not help.
29 March 2026Read →
Understanding Health Anxiety
Body Checking, Social Media, and the Google Spiral
Natalie Dyson talks about body checking, social media triggers, reassurance-seeking, and daily life inside health anxiety.
15 March 2026Read →