Stop Worrying about Your Health!

Book excerpt: END YOUR HEALTH WORRIES TODAY! Everyone has felt the need to scratch when a friend reveals a rash, but for some of us, unfounded concerns about potential illness can take over our lives. If you are one of the millions of people plagued by irrational thoughts about minor physical symptoms, and remain certain that there is something wrong with you despite a doctor's repeated assurances to the contrary, then you know what it is to live with a health anxiety. In this first-ever self-help guide for people who are excessively concerned about their health, mind-body-spirit physician and psychologist George D. Zgourides offers effective, step-by-step strategies for countering illness obsession. Learn to identify and treat the underlying causes of worry, counteract irrational self-talk about minor, everyday physical symptoms, and accept and finally redefine your experience of aches and pains-for good.