Welcome back, dudes and dudets.

Welcome to episode 104 of the anxious truth.

Today our topic is health anxiety, otherwise known as hypochondriasis, if you're into the whole psychological

terminology thing.

Today, though, we have a special guest, actually I had him last week.

You're going to listen to a Zoom recording that I did last week with a professor from Norway by the name of

Engvard Wilhelmson. Dr Wilhelmson is a professor at the University of Bergen in

Norway. He is a doctor, he is a lecturer, a writer, and a

clinician specializing in the field of health anxiety, otherwise known as

hypochondriasis. Dr. Wilhelmson was nice enough to spend about 30 minutes on Zoom with me last week.

We recorded the call.

We talked about health anxiety, what it's based on, what the underlying principles are.

And we talked a lot about his particular

approach and how he treats his patients who suffer from things like from health

anxiety. Here's a spoiler alert. You're going to hear a tremendous amount of

repetition of a lot of the the concepts and the tools and the techniques that we've talked about in the podcast for the last five years.

So I've been if you have been following along with me none of this will be new to you, but it will be a really

good reinforcement and I think a more in-depth discussion of how some of the concepts that I talk

about all the time relate specifically to the problem of health

anxiety being obsessed with one's health and being worried about you know bad

things happening from a health standpoint. So let's get rolling when to get into

the interview this is what you're going to hear.

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