Tips for Health OCD / Health Anxiety / Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (ICBT)
★★★The volume on the introductory segment of this video is louder than the volume on the main portion. Apologies for the oversight, but simply turning up the volume after the intro sequence addresses the issue.★★★
This video presents some tips for managing Health OCD. This is a form of OCD characterized by obsessional doubt of your health, and the possibility that you may miss, or fail to take seriously, signs of a serious health issue. These tips come to us from the perspective of Inference Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (I-CBT), a treatment approach developed by Kieron O’Connor and Frederick Aardema. Special thanks to Carl Robbins, LCPC, and Mike Heady, LCPC, two Maryland (US) based experts in the field whose ideas directly contributed to these tips.
I’m Michael Parker, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA.
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🔗General resources for OCD treatment: https://iocdf.org/
🔗I-CBT specific resources: https://icbt.online/
Intro Music Credits:
Big Bird’s Date Night by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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5 Comments
You’re back, man! So happy to see you have a new video up and plan to have more coming. Your content has helped me so much this past year and I always rush to watch when I get notified you’ve uploaded something new.
Definitely liked and subscribed. Great info.😊
I suffered horribly with health OCD in my younger years, thank you for addressing this! When I was 15 I became convinced that I had testicular cancer because I had some vague aches in my lower groinal region, and at 19 that I either had a brain tumor or MS because the side of my face was twitching a bit/feeling numb.
Your videos are so helpful and have really made a difference for me. Thanks Mike!
Yes i too am suffering from a health OCD and it is cardio phobia. Its really very bad!