Reviews for It's Not All in Your Head: How Worrying about Your Health Could Be Making You Sick--and What You Can Do about It

The average rating for It's Not All in Your Head: How Worrying about Your Health Could Be Making You Sick--and What You Can Do about It based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-05-24 00:00:00 Joseph Madel This is a good book for anyone who has health anxiety. It talks about reasons why people may have it, and what they can do about it. It provides some insight into behavior modification and gives techniques for relaxation. As a person who suffers from health anxiety and stress, I didn't find this book to be an all-encompassing solution, but it did provide me some strategies that I'm finding useful. I'm sure I'll be re-reading this book at some point or another.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-01-27 00:00:00 Jane Weingrad The problem with books like these is that they are poisoning patients and medical professionals with the scientifically baseless idea that anything that can't be immediately explained is psychological and that patients who believe their pain has a physical cause when one can't be found are just "anxious". Disagreement isn't anxiety; it's freedom of thought. It's both ridiculous and disgraceful that the medical community has tried to rebrand "it's not all in your head" as if it's their thing and pro-psychogenic medicine. "It's not all in your head" was the phrase used to comfort, validate, and spread awareness of thousands of people who were falsely diagnosed with psychogenic illnesses because doctors were either too stupid or too lazy to figure out that they had organic illnesses. And now the medical community has the audacity to imply that they were never saying their pain wasn't real? That is wasn't "all in their head" despite being "all in their head"? It's nonsense. All the medical community is doing is saying the same thing in a different way so they can avoid backlash from the infuriating and incredibly harmful thing they are doing. They want to say audacious things that negatively impact people's lives, but they don't want people to get mad at them for saying them, so they say to patients "your pain is real--even though it's not". It's illogical. With chronic illness patients, the problem is the pain, not worrying over the pain. Addressing the worry won't help the pain, because the worry is not the problem; it is the response to the pain. The worry is there for a reason, so that people will do something about the pain, and make it go away.