Stop Checking
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Overcome Health Anxiety
Evidenced-based tools to break the cycle of constant body-scanning and reassurance-seeking. Itā€™s time to move beyond the 'what-ifs' and learn toĀ live with fear, not in fear, so you can get back to the life you actually want to live.
Welcome, Warrior. You're in the right place.
Whatever brought you here, a hard day, a scary thought, or just wanting to understand yourself better, you don't have to face it alone. Explore courses, blogs, videos, and forms built to help you break the cycle of checking and searching, so you can learn to live with fear, not in fear.
Health AnxietyĀ Courses
Health Anxiety 101
Health Anxiety 101 introduces you to the basics of health anxiety: what it is, how it develops, and how it affects your mind and body daily.
Digging Deeper
Digging Deeper goes beyond Health Anxiety 101, offering strategies to tackle health anxiety at a much deeper level for lasting, real change.
Anxiety About Health
Anxiety About Health explores what changes when a real diagnosis enters the picture and how to manage anxiety alongside real symptoms daily.
Health AnxietyĀ Videos
OHA InterviewsĀ
Health Anxiety Blogs
Body checking feels like caution, but it's a compulsion that keeps anxiety alive. Here's why hypervigilance backfires, and what actually helps.
Good test results feel like relief, but for health anxiety that relief never lasts. Learn why reassurance backfires and how to build real tolerance for uncertainty.
A racing heart isn't the problem, it's the verdict your mind hands down about it. Learn how to stop judging your sensations and start observing them instead.
Not all doubt is health anxiety, sometimes it's valid advocacy. Learn the real difference between seeking better care and getting stuck in the reassurance loop.
A routine checkup is supposed to bring relief, but for health anxiety it often brings dread. Here's why, and how to get through it without avoidance or over checking.
Cold and flu season turns your internal smoke detector into a siren. Here are five ways to manage health anxiety without letting fear drive the car this winter.
Your Complete Guide to Living Life to the Fullest
Written by and Dr. Josh Spitalnick and Michael Stier LCPC, with a foreword by Dr. Patrick McGrath, The Complete Guide to Overcoming Health Anxiety: How to Live Life to the Fullest...Because You're Not Dead (Yet) draws on their combined 30+ years of clinical experience treating OCD, anxiety, and health related fears. Written with real talk, humor, and step by step CBT based tools, this book meets you exactly where you are and walks you through breaking the cycle of checking, researching, and reassurance seeking, so you can finally live with fear, not in fear.
