Dr Josh Spitalnick: Health Anxiety, and living life well (#478)
The OCD Stories
Stuart
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In episode 478 I chat with Dr Josh Spitalnick. Josh is a licensed psychologist, owner and clinical director at the Anxiety Specialists of Atlanta, an outpatient clinic. He is co-author of “The Complete Guide to Overcoming Health Anxiety”.
We discuss what’s new with him, his book, the title of the book, this idea of mental health - health anxiety, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), living life regardless of fears, social media’s impact on health anxiety, the different variations of health anxiety, therapy for health anxiety, and much more. Hope it helps.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The OCD Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph. |
| 0:05.5 | The OCD Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding around obsessive, |
| 0:11.1 | compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists, psychologists, and people |
| 0:16.8 | who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD Stories. |
| 0:24.5 | And welcome to episode 478 of the podcast. |
| 0:30.6 | And in this one, I got back on Dr. Josh Patalnek. Josh is a licensed psychologist, owner and clinical director at the Anxiety Specialists of Atlanta, an outpatient clinic. He also co-authored |
| 0:37.1 | the book, The Complete Guide to Overcoming Health |
| 0:40.0 | Anxiety. So in today's episode, we talk about health anxiety, particular what's new of him, |
| 0:46.0 | his book, the title of the book, the idea of mental health, health anxiety, acceptance |
| 0:52.5 | of commitment therapy, exposure and response prevention therapy, |
| 0:55.9 | living life regardless of fears, social media's impact on health anxiety, the different |
| 1:01.1 | variations of health anxiety, therapy for health anxiety, and much, much more. |
| 1:06.5 | Struggling with OCD, you're not alone. NoCD offers live face-to-face video therapy with licensed |
| 1:13.3 | specialists who truly understand OCD. NoCD therapists are trained in exposure response prevention |
| 1:18.9 | therapy, the gold standard for OCD treatment and provide personalized treatment and support for |
| 1:24.3 | children and adults. Take the first step towards regaining your life today. |
| 1:28.9 | Visit nocd.com or the link will be in the episode description to book a free call. |
| 1:34.6 | So thank you to Josh as always for his time. It's great to connect with him again. See what he's |
| 1:39.2 | been up to and hear his work on health anxiety. If you're affected by this, I think this episode will help you. |
| 1:45.7 | And if you're not affected by this, |
| 1:48.2 | we generally go into a lot of things |
| 1:51.2 | that would generally help with living a good life |
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