Treating Health Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach

While this book is geared more toward doctors and researchers on health anxiety, I found it to be IMMENSELY helpful to me as well. I'm not a doctor and I'm not a health professional. I'm just someone who has had "health anxiety" (a term that doctors apparently aren't aware of yet) and it helped me to overcome many issues regarding this mental state. It helped me to understand how doctors think, why they do and say the things they do, and what you can do to help yourself. Basically, if you have health anxiety, GET THIS BOOK because it will help you to realize that you're NOT crazy and there are very real reasons why you feel the way you do. More importantly, it will help you to understand that most doctors unfortunately don't have the time to care as much as they could and should. They have to make money too, you know! There is help out there for the suffering you feel. I sought help for many years through "professionals," but honestly this book helped me more than they did.

The collaborative work of clinical psychologist Steven Taylor (Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Canada) and professor of psychiatry Gordon Asmundson (Research Director, Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies, University of Regina, Canada), Treating Health Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach is a solid, in-depth resource focusing especially on helping those people for whom fears of contracting a serious illness cause excessive, serious, and chronic problems with day-to-day life. Reviewing current knowledge about health anxiety disorders, stressing the need for continuing collaboration between Cognitive-Behavioral practitioners and primary care physicians, outlining recent advances in the treatment of health anxieties, and much more, Treating Health Anxiety is a seminal contribution with emphasis on the practical and a welcome contribution to mental health reference shelves.