Hey Guys, I hope all is well. I've been pretty swamped lately but starting tomorrow I'll finally get a chance to chill out a bit. I'll be traveling to Cancun tonight and staying there for about a week. I won't be working while I'm there, so I thought it would be a good time to post a new podcast. Lately I've been receiving a ton of email about various issues related to health anxiety. So I thought it would be helpful to revisit this issue but also provide more detail about the different kinds of health anxiety that people struggle with. Like
Does Going to the Doctor Raise Your Blood Pressure?
So there you are. Sitting in a frigid waiting room staring at the clock. Each time the second-hand moves it seems to clang louder and louder. Tic-Toc. Tic-Toc. As you rub your sweaty hands together suddenly your name gets called out, which causes your stomach to hit the floor. Then you suck in a big gulp of air and take the long walk into the examination room. Eyes glued to the medical assistant's heels as you hope, wish, and pray that you don't panic. But I'm not writing to tell you that some people get nervous when they see a
Brain SPECT Imaging: A New Way Of Looking At Mental Illness
When most of us picture someone being diagnosed with a mental disorder, the examination we imagine is question based-a soft interrogation of sorts. With other types of health issues people are normally poked and probed, drained of fluids, tested and retested. But mental heath care has almost none of the facets of traditional medical diagnostics. This could all change in less than twenty years. For decades now the only way to know if someone was mentally ill was to either ask the person how they felt or simply observe behavior that is
The Anxiety Guru Show: Hypochondria Ep 10
Show Notes: Hypochondria 1. Hypochondria is a health phobia that makes its sufferers believe that they are ill in the absence of disease. It is marked by constant worry about health issues. a. This is an obsession that cannot be easily alleviated. Even a trip to the doctor is not enough to calm the nerves of a hypochondriac. b. A hypochondriac will usually focus on a part of the body or certain types of disease. An example would be an intense focus on the heart because of palpitations . c. This is a condition characterized by