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Health Anxiety Therapy Tool
Health Anxiety Therapy Tool
Explore your health worry and find clarity
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Health anxiety, also known as Illness Anxiety Disorder (IAD) or hypochondria, is a condition characterized by excessive and distressing worry about having a serious medical illness. Constantly checking symptoms, seeking reassurance, or fearing the worst takes a toll on your peace of mind. The Health Anxiety Therapy Tool helps you understand the anxiety cycle and gives you structured techniques to calm your fears, reduce checking behaviours, and restore a balanced relationship with your body.
WHAT IT IS:
The Health Anxiety Therapy Tool is a comprehensive guide designed to help you understand and manage health anxiety. A therapist-designed toolkit that combines psychoeducation + five evidence-based tools. You’ll learn what health anxiety is, why it persists, and practical ways to stop the cycle of worry and reassurance-seeking. Additionally, an 18-point self-assessment provided to help you determine your your level of health anxiety with Interpretation scores.
HOW IT HELPS:
- Understand what health anxiety is (& isn’t)
- Break free from reassurance-seeking cycle
- Reduce compulsive symptom-checking
- Reframe catastrophic thoughts
- Worry time to contain overthinking spirals
- Build calm through grounding
- Create healthier coping habits
WHAT YOU GET:
- In-Depth Content: Detailed explanations of health anxiety, its symptoms, and causes.
- Psychologist-Designed Self-Assessment: An 18-point self-assessment exercise to determine your level of health anxiety with Interpretation scores
- Therapy Tools: Evidence based and curated by psychologists. You can access guided exercises and worksheets to feel better and build emotional resilience.
Psychoeducation
- What is health anxiety and how it works
- Symptoms (care-seeking, care-avoidant)
- Causes and contributing factors
- Health anxiety vs general anxiety
- The health anxiety cycle explained
- Myths vs realities
Six Therapy Tools
- Daily Thought Restructuring Worksheet
- Scheduled Worry Time Planner
- If–Then Planning Template
- Grounding & Mindfulness Exercises
- Cyberchondria Management Tool
- Bonus: Health Anxiety Self-Assessment
Format:
✔️ A5 size PDF therapy toolkit
✔️ Guided Worksheets & reflection pages (fillable/ printable)
Health anxiety doesn’t have to rule your life. With the right tools, you can reduce fear, stop reassurance-seeking, and create more calm, trust, and balance.
HOW IT WORKS:
- Purchase: Secure your toolkit
- Instant Download: Save your digital copy
- Fill-in/Print Your PDF: Journal your inputs
- Reflect & practice with guided worksheets
- Choose your pace: use one or multiple tools
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Explore your health worry and find clarity
Health Anxiety Therapy Tool
DETAILED OVERVIEW OF THE TOOLS
More about the tools offered to you in the Health Anxiety Therapy Tool:
- Daily Thought Restructuring Tool - Helps you spot your thinking trap in real time and soften anxiety by shifting perspective.
- Scheduled Worry Time Tool - Helps you notice patterns in your fears and build trust in your ability to tolerate uncertainty
- If-Then Planning Template - Helps you respond with intention and feel less controlled by your triggers.
- Grounding and Mindfulness Exercises - Helps you reduce the need for reassurance and regain control by shifting attention from fear to fact
- Limit Online Symptom Searches (Cyberchondria) - Helps you replace panic with peace through structure and reflection
- Health Anxiety Self-Assessment - Helps you reflect on your experiences and understand your emotional health better
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)
1. What is psychoeducation and how will it help me?
The psychoeducation section of Health Anxiety Therapy tool is designed to help you understand certain key concepts related to health anxiety or hypochondria from a psychologists perspective. Once you get a grasp of the concepts it will help you relate to your situation and apply the tools with ease.
2. Are the therapy tools guided?
yes every tool has detailed guidelines to use the tool along with relevant examples.
3. Are there any guidelines to help me navigate this therapy tool?
Yes you have detailed guidelines mentioned in the beginning of the book to help you navigate both the sections that is psychoeducation and practical tools.
4. Do I need to go through this book under the supervision of my therapist?
You may choose to discuss it with your therapist if you are already consulting one. Incase you are not seeing a therapist you can independently follow the tools. Each tool has detailed guidelines
5. Will I overcome Health Anxiety after completion of this therapy tool?
This therapy tool has all the tools to help you understand yourself better and build your emotional resilience. With regular practice of the relevant tools you can overcome health anxiety
6. How to use this therapy tool? Should I use the tools as per the order given in the book?
All the guidelines to use this tool effectively is mentioned in detail. You may choose to either follow the order or pick up a tool that seems relevant to you considering your current circumstances
7. In order to practice, can I use the soft copy or do I need to download and print it?
The soft copy of the book is in editable format, however you can choose to download and print incase that seems comfortable.
8. How will I know how to use each tool?
Each tool has a sample sheet with examples given for your reference. Kindly go through the examples and then apply the tool using your own life situation.
9. How is this toolkit different from generic anxiety guides?
It’s specifically focused on health anxiety, with psychoeducation and tools designed to break the reassurance-checking cycle.
10. What if I already visit doctors often?
Health anxiety therapy tool helps reduce over-checking and builds tolerance for uncertainty, so you can use medical care more effectively and less anxiously.
11. Can this help if I avoid doctors completely?
Yes. Care-avoidant patterns are addressed with tools that balance awareness without fuelling fear.
12. How long before I notice results?
Many feel relief after using the Thought Restructuring and Worry Time tools for 1–2 weeks. Consistency creates lasting change.
13. Can I use this alongside therapy or medication?
Absolutely. It complements therapy and is often recommended by professionals as an at-home practice.
NOTE FROM OUR CO-FOUNDER
For years, Mental Health has been stigmatized in our society.
Expressing emotions like sadness or anxiety is often seen as weakness, hindering open discussions and access to mental health resources.
HAPPETIVE BELIEVES IN BREAKING THE TABOO AROUND MENTAL HEALTH.
We offer curated Mental Wellbeing Products designed by Mental Health Experts, Psychologists & Business leaders to support Everyone's Mental Wellbeing Journey.
Our tools are an amalgamation of various techniques from the field of Psychology and Spirituality. [Backed by Scientific Approach in the field of Mental Health]
Rhea Doshi (Co-Founder & CEO) is India's leading Counselling Psychologists, Human Resources Leader, Meditation Expert & a Certified Healer.