Coaching practices for How to Cope with Health Anxiety Disorder
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I spend my days bracing for the next wave of it, scanning my body, dreading the moment it shows up
- Even once the worst of it passes, I can’t get back into the room
- I walk into hard situations white-knuckling to make sure nothing bad happens, so the second I feel any anxiety I read it as proof of danger and grab for a crutch
- Maybe the bad thing really could happen
- I keep asking the people around me "are you sure it’s fine?" over and over
Practices that may help
- Run toward the feeling
Actively invite more of the anxiety rather than waiting nervously for it to pass.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Engage with the present moment
Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical - Reframe from "preventing catastrophe" to "coping with discomfort"
Shift the goal of entering feared situations from preventing disaster to practicing tolerance.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Ask: could you cope even if the worst happened?
Catastrophizing also underestimates your coping capacity — examine that half of the equation.
Decatastrophizing, Made Practical - Fade reassurance-seeking
Gradually reduce how often you seek reassurance from others that the feared thing won't happen.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Build an avoidance hierarchy and work through it systematically
List all the situations you avoid because of anxiety, from least to most frightening, then work up the list.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Add interoceptive rungs for bodily fear
If you fear the physical sensations of anxiety itself, include exposures that deliberately induce them.
The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical - Interoceptive awareness
Practice noticing and naming body sensations neutrally, so they stop reading as alarms.
The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical - Interoceptive exposure for physical anxiety sensations
Deliberately produce feared bodily sensations (racing heart, dizziness) to learn they are tolerable.
Exposure Therapy: Facing Fears to Shrink Them - Identify and challenge catastrophic threat appraisals
Examine and revise the exaggerated danger estimates that keep fear conditioned.
Counter-Conditioning and Systematic Desensitization
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