Health anxiety is a specific type of anxiety that is related to your own health, or your perception of it. Health anxiety is when you spend so much time worrying you’re ill, or about getting ill, that it starts totake over your life.
This course will consider the different types of health anxiety, what it is like to experience health anxiety and outlines the therapeutic approach of cognitive behavioural therapy.
This course is aimed at people experiencing health anxiety, or for those supporting someone with health anxiety. The course also serves as an introduction to health anxiety for staff working with someone with this issue.
This course is made up of ten pages, with an optional quiz at the end. This course will take approximately 1 to 2 hours to complete, but this timing will depend on how fast you read and how long you spend on the reflective questions. You do not need to complete the whole course in one go. If you leave and come back to the course it will remember where you got up to.