Keeping a diary focused on your illness anxiety can help you understand and get insight into the anxious thoughts you are having at any given time and how to manage them.

When keeping a diary focused on your illness anxiety, you can answer the following questions:

  • What have you experienced today?
  • What thoughts have you had that made you anxious?
  • How strongly did you believe the anxious thoughts you had today?
  • How much time did you spend on other things today (i.e., not on your body or health)?
  • How many times have you asked for reassurance?
  • How many times have you checked (e.g., researched) the thought?
  • How many times have you ignored the thought?

Fill out how anxious you felt today beneath “What do you feel?”.

 

Below, you can see a completed example of an illness anxiety diary:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source:
Keijsers, G. P. J., Van Minnen, A., Verbraak, M., Hoogduin, C. A. L. & Emmelkamp, P., (2017). Protocollaire behandelingen voor volwassenen met psychische klachten.

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