Heather Shearer

What Are You Dying from This Week? Heather Shearer

Anxiety is now the most common mental illness in the world. Health Anxiety is a specific type of anxiety characterized by preoccupation and fear about having or contracting illness, typically life threatening illnesses. It can be extremely debilitating, and cause significant distress to sufferers. Unfortunately, like many mental illnesses, it is subject to stigma, and people with health anxiety will often hide their suffering from others, and not seek help. Health anxiety however can be treated in the same way as other anxiety disorders. The author, Dr Heather Shearer, herself a long term health anxiety sufferer, writes an easy to read book about the origins, maintenance, triggers and techniques to help health anxiety.