Tips for Health OCD / Health Anxiety / Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ม.ค. 2025
- This video presents some tips for managing Health OCD. This is a form of OCD characterized by obsessional doubt of your health, and the possibility that you may miss, or fail to take seriously, signs of a serious health issue. These tips come to us from the perspective of Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), a treatment approach developed by Kieron O'Connor and Frederick Aardema. Special thanks to Carl Robbins, LCPC, and Mike Heady, LCPC, two Maryland (US) based experts in the field whose ideas directly contributed to these tips.
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You’re back, man! So happy to see you have a new video up and plan to have more coming. Your content has helped me so much this past year and I always rush to watch when I get notified you’ve uploaded something new.
Thanks for the welcome back! I appreciate the support. And I'm psyched to hear the videos have helped!
Hi. I obsess about mental health disorders. I can't stop thinking about various ones and constantly checking my symptoms. It's been exhausting and interfering with my life greatly. I'm trying erp but it doesn't seem to work
@@tamarahunter8706 You're describing a common issue that has some overlap with health OCD. I'm going to be creating a video in the near future on "meta OCD" which is when your obsession becomes focused on your mental health, having OCD, whether you'll ever stop worrying, etc.
@@OCDspace412 I obsess about that but also every diagnosis there is. Worry if I have or ever had symptoms. Check... Ask others. It's been off and on 2 yrs
@@tamarahunter8706 Sorry to hear that. It is nice to have options like ICBT when you've given ERP a shot and it hasn't worked as well as you hoped.
Appreciate this so much, thank you for touching on this. I've had this since I was a kid and always felt silly / was labeled a hypochondriac and told to get over it. This shit is debilitating.
So happy this helped. It's important to recognize that Health Anxiety is a debilitating condition, and that it's not your intention to be consumed by this worry!
yahoooo! glad you're back to videos....
Thanks! I'm doing one every 2 weeks right now, which seems totally doable!
I suffered horribly with health OCD in my younger years, thank you for addressing this! When I was 15 I became convinced that I had testicular cancer because I had some vague aches in my lower groinal region, and at 19 that I either had a brain tumor or MS because the side of my face was twitching a bit/feeling numb.
Happy to hear that the health OCD sounds like it's in the past tense!
Definitely liked and subscribed. Great info.😊
Awesome. Thanks and welcome aboard!
Your videos are so helpful and have really made a difference for me. Thanks Mike!
So happy to hear that. Thanks for the feedback!
Very helpful video! Thanks for creating such great I-CBT content, I am a clinician and I always refer clients to your videos :)
Thank you so much for sharing that. Happy these videos have been helpful!
Thank you for this
My pleasure!
Yes i too am suffering from a health OCD and it is cardio phobia. Its really very bad!
Hang in there! If you haven't already, check out a phenomenon called Anxiety Sensitivity. One of the categories of Anxiety Sensitivity is a fear that certain anxiety/panic symptoms could be indicative of heart problems: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/202002/anxiety-sensitivity-when-what-we-fear-is-fear-itself.