Death anxiety can underlie many different mental health diagnoses at all stages of life, including depressive disorders, panic disorder, health anxiety, specific phobias, OCD, agoraphobia and more. This self-help guide will help you to better understand your fear of death and give you the tools to overcome it.
Using proven cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, including exposure and response prevention (ERP), this book will help you to:
· Understand death anxiety and how it develops
· Undertake specific evidence-based steps to develop alternative ways of thinking about death
· Conduct exposure exercises to act against your fears
· Reduce your anxiety so that you can live life to the fullest.
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David Veale is a Consultant Psychiatrist at SLa M and the Nightingale Hospital. He is a Visiting Professor in CBT at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. David is recognised as an international expert in emetophobia and is the author of several books on the topic of health anxiety, OCD, BDD and depression. www.veale.co.uk