Posted by dawnfawn on December 4, 2004, at 11:11:40
I have posted a few times recently on this board. My question is simple and of course difficult!! What kind of therapy helps hypochondria? I was in Psychoanalysis maybe 30 years ago for a variety of other problems. I found it helpful but do not see the need to return. Currently I have been suffering from a moderate to severe hypochondria concerning the heart. My mother died of a massive heart attack at 76, although she suffered her first one at 60. I am currently 59. I run from doctor to doctor if it is not my heart I think it is my lungs. I was advised to enter into CBT, I saw one very bizaare man who claimed to be a cognitive therapist, but was not. Not only that he was eccentric beyond belief. After that I entered into a therapy with a woman who seems not to be helping me at all. After three months she just reiterates I should do my homework. My homework consists of writing down my feelings and moods which are always the same: I get a pain or a high blood pressure attack and ruminate and think I am dying. It is not doing any good to refute these thoughts as I Know I am not dying at this point. I am basically awaiting the other shoe to drop. Can anyone reccomend a more fruitful approach to this type of anxiety. Is it possible she is not employing CBT correctly? I was told this works on hypochondria. Thanks.
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