Ep. 139: How to Manage Health Anxiety
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit. In today's podcast, I give an account of how I manage health anxiety, both when managing medical issues and during medical tests. With all of the fear related to the Coronavirus, health anxiety is becoming a very scary word. Many with OCD are impacted by this because doctors and authorities are telling them to be concerned. This is very much the same when you are dealing with a medical issue and it can be hard to differentiate what is appropriate and what is fear-related.
In this episode, I address how to manage health anxiety from many different perspectives and I hope you find it helpful.
Please check out this post about managing health anxiety over the coronavirus. https://www.shalanicely.com/aha-moments/managing-ocd-about-coronavirus/
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https://www.cbtschool.com/erp-school-lp
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 139. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by |
| 0:17.7 | three main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help |
| 0:22.6 | you manage your anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your |
| 0:29.5 | life. And number three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual |
| 0:36.9 | hug, because experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:40.3 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:47.5 | Alrighty, this is probably the most exciting time of the year for me. Oh my goodness, twice a year. We offer ERP |
| 0:58.5 | school and it is back. And I am so excited and so thrilled with the feedback so far. So a lot of |
| 1:08.0 | you already may know that ERP school, which is called Exposure and Response Prevention School, is an online course that I created to help people who don't have access to an ERP therapist or I don't have the resources to get an ERP therapist because they can be very expensive. |
| 1:29.0 | Or they've had treatment and they're looking for a little booster or they're looking for a little motivation. |
| 1:33.9 | That is why I made this course and I am so excited to share with you again. |
| 1:41.4 | I think this is like the fifth time I've shared it with you guys and I offer it in |
| 1:46.1 | September and February every year so yay it's February and I'm like I said so thrilled |
| 1:54.0 | the feedback has been incredible oh my goodness to hear you you know, saying and posting online how much it's |
| 2:03.0 | helping you and how you feel validated and how you feel inspired and motivated. And that just |
| 2:10.3 | fills my heart. So if you're interested in getting ERP school, you can go to CBT school.com and go to online courses. You can click |
| 2:22.0 | the link in the show notes of this show and there will be a link there as well. Or if you Google |
| 2:29.3 | ERP school OCD, it will come up in the very, very top. So there are some options for you. |
| 2:37.0 | It will be available for another few days. So it will be available till March 9th and then |
| 2:44.7 | we'll go back to living our lives and then we'll be back in September. So that is there for you. Now let's get over to the |
| 2:54.8 | episode. All right. Before we do, I would like to share with you the I Did a Hard Thing segment |
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