Hi, I'm starting this thread to document my experience with schema therapy for health anxiety and generalised anxiety.

So far I've just done the questionnaire, so haven't found out what schemas I have, but I suspect they are:

  • vulnerability to harm
  • emotional deprivation
  • defectiveness
  • emotional inhibition
  • social isolation
  • negativity/pessimism


Something that has emerged already just from giving the therapist my background is that been so focussed on my health fears that I didn't realise how afraid of everything else I am eg. money, personal safety, career, relationships, world events.

I have a friend who says schema therapy really helped them a lot, so I'm hoping it does the same for me.