The Complete Guide to Overcoming Health Anxiety: How to Live Life to the Fullest...Because You're Not Dead (Yet)

I've found this very helpful. I like the lightness of tone in parts - it's serious where it has to be. It's also compassionate and understanding of the very real challenges of health anxiety. It's a great source of information and also includes tasks to work through to help manage health anxiety, in small steps. I'm grateful to the authors for setting down their expertise so clearly and accessibly.

This book changed my life. It surpasses just being informative - it is a guide (and essentially a curriculum) on how to live WITH your fears rather than trapped IN your fears. I thought that I would be stuck in my fears forever. I had no idea there were practices and techniques that could help me “defuse the bomb” that is my anxiety. This book led me to the realization that I am “a warrior, not a worrier” - a concept that has encouraged me to redefine myself. If you struggle with health anxiety, start with this book. It even fits in my purse, so I can refer to it whenever I need help shifting my mindset. How do you overcome health anxiety? Well this book, woven with honest humor and some dad jokes, will get you there. You’ve got this!

I found this book to be engaging, easy to follow, and overall very helpful.

Not sure why this is getting such good reviews. It's clunky and lacks any sort of direction. You could edit about 40% of it by removing the 'humour'. Some really unnecessarily long digressions into bland jokes. I am all for using comedy in these kinds of books but this one is simply not funny. Ugly layout and presentation make this a real slog with no discernable positives.

I never expected to find myself reading this book and laughing out loud OFTEN. As an anxiety and OCD child therapist I ordered this book to see if it would be something I would recommend for the families I support. Also, on a personal note, health anxiety is rampant in my family and my oldest daughter (20 yrs old) struggles with this. I thought it could be a potential resource in all of those areas. I literally consumed this book. I would tell myself I’d read one more chapter and before I knew it I was a few more chapters in. The book offered all the clinical skills I know to be evidenced based approaches for health anxiety, all the while being relatable, funny and enjoyable (yes, I said enjoyable) to read. Rarely do I encounter a self-help book that I’ll not only recommend (because it will be super helpful), but because I know they’ll enjoy it as well. Jam packed with sound clinical advice and packaged in a funny and relatable delivery - this book is gold!