Free Health Anxiety Test
Screen for health anxiety (hypochondria) with this confidential assessment.
Do you worry a lot about your health?
What is Health Anxiety (Hypochondria)?
Health Anxiety (previously called hypochondria or hypochondriasis) is characterised by excessive worry about having or developing a serious illness, despite medical reassurance. People with health anxiety misinterpret normal bodily sensations as signs of serious disease and seek frequent medical consultations or tests.
Health anxiety affects approximately 4-6% of the population and can be extremely distressing. The anxiety cycle involves noticing a bodily sensation, catastrophic interpretation, anxiety and checking behaviours, temporary relief, then renewed worry. This creates a self-perpetuating pattern that medical reassurance only temporarily alleviates.
Important: Your physical symptoms are real - anxiety causes genuine physiological responses. This free health anxiety test is a screening tool based on validated clinical measures. If you score high, CBT can help you break the anxiety cycle and find peace of mind.
Common Signs of Health Anxiety
Evidence-Based Treatment for Health Anxiety
Health anxiety responds extremely well to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Our London therapists specialise in helping you break free from the health anxiety cycle:
CBT for Health Anxiety
CBT helps you understand the health anxiety cycle, challenge catastrophic thinking, reduce checking and reassurance-seeking, and learn to tolerate uncertainty about health. Success rates are very high.
Learn about health anxiety treatmentWhat You'll Learn
- • How anxiety creates real physical symptoms
- • Why reassurance makes anxiety worse long-term
- • How to tolerate uncertainty about health
- • Reducing checking and online searching
- • Accepting normal bodily variations
Health Anxiety Resources
Find Peace from Health Worries
CBT for health anxiety has excellent outcomes. Our therapists specialise in helping you break the anxiety cycle, reduce checking behaviours, and live without constant health fears.