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Overcoming Health Anxiety: Salkovskis

Overcoming Health Anxiety Table of Contents Chapter 3 Setting goals . 1 Chapter 4 Dealing with distressing thoughts and images . 1 Label your thinking style . 1 Decatastrophising . 2 1 Physical effects of anxiety . 2 2 Do a Survey of your friends . 2 3 Trying to be certain is part of the problem .. 2 4. Thinking bias . 2 Responsibility pie chart . 2 Watching your thoughts pass by . 2 Chapter 5 Understand the process of worry . 2 ABC for Worry . 2 CBA for Worry . 2 Worry Beliefs . 2 Chapter 6 learning to retrain your attention . 2 What is the motivation for being overly self-focused? . 3 Chapter 7 Reducing anxiety by facing your fears . 3 Dropping safety behaviours . 3 Exposure . 4 Chapter 3 Setting goals 1.        Define short, medium and long term goals 2.        Establish your values such that you can spend more time focussing on these and less focussing on your health anxiety Chapter 4 Dealing with distres...