Do you tend to recall times when you were right about a symptom you had while ignoring all of the times you were wrong? This memory bias is increasing your health anxiety.
When people hold dysfunctional beliefs about disease, information-processing biases strengthen those beliefs.
One type of information bias is the memory bias, in which people selectively recall threatening data.. Maybe there was one time or a couple of times that you were right about a symptom. The symptom was, in fact, due to an actual health concern. Of course, that stands out in your head, right? Those moments are particularly memorable.
This process actually further reinforces our"threat bias." In other words, health-anxious people already tend to overestimate the probability and severity of getting a disease. This memory bias further reinforces these beliefs and makes us evenThis is why it can be really helpful to track your anxious thoughts about your health in a thought record, so you can then look back and see just how often you were correct about your symptoms and what you thought your symptoms meant.
2. Start tracking your thoughts about your symptoms and their outcomes in the thought record. This will help you to gain some insight into any patterns you have. Namely, the pattern of focusing on the one or more times you did have a serious health issue and ignoring all the times your thoughts about the symptom were wrong. Below is an example of how you can track your symptoms, thoughts, and outcomes. Give it a try. Track all of this for two weeks and then take a look at the data.
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