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 to take over your life.
This course will consider:
This course is aimed at people experiencing health anxiety and 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 has ten pages. 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.
If you would like to get a certificate for this course, you must mark each page complete. You can do this by pressing the ‘mark complete’ button at the bottom of each page.
Course updated: February 2025
Anxiety Care: Support for people experiencing anxiety. To access Anxiety Care, click the following link:
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Anxiety UK: Information and support to people experiencing anxiety. To access Anxiety UK, click the following link:
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British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP): Information about counselling in England and Wales. To access the BACP, click the following link:
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Centre for Clinical Interventions: Follow link then search for: Helping Health Anxiety. To access the Cen
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Get Self-help: Follow link then search for: Health Anxiety Thought Record. To access Get Self-help, click the following link:
Get Self-help: Follow link then search for: The Court Case Scenario. To access Get Self-help click the following link:
Get Self-help: Follow link then search for: Unhelpful Thinking Habits. To access Get Self-help, click the following link:
Mental Health Matters: Support and information on employment, housing, community support and psychological support. To access Mental Health Matters, click the following link:
Mind Infoline: Information about mental distress and provides help and support in your local area. To access Mind Infoline, click the following link:
NHS Choices - Your health, your choices: Information about conditions, treatments, local services and healthy lives. To access NHS Choices, click the following link:
No Panic: Support for people experiencing panic attacks, phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder, general anxiety disorder and tranquiliser withdrawal. To access No Panic, click the following link:
Rethink: Information and helpline for people affected by mental health problems. To access Rethink, click the following link:
Wells, A. (2005) Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: A Practice Manual and Conceptual Guide. Wiley &Sons: Chichester.