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It's Probably Nothing: The Stress-Less Guide to Dealing with Health Anxiety, Wellness Fads, and Overhyped Headlines Paperback – October 5, 2021

by Casey Gueren (Author), Jennifer Gunter MD (Foreword)

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From stress-induced symptom searching and "miracle cures" to the wellness fads filling your social media timeline, health journalist Casey Gueren digs into why we're so anxious about our health and how to separate medical facts from fiction.

Surrounded by “health hacks” and clickbait headlines, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and underprepared when it comes to taking care of your health. But despite what the wellness industry told you, you don’t need another cleanse, detox, or supplement—you need a crash course in separating hype from health.

In It's Probably Nothing you’ll find a health journalist’s tools and tips to. . .

Fine-tune your B.S. detector and spot the wellness industry’s sneaky tricks
Get answers to your health questions without spiraling down search holes
Manage health stress and learn to listen to your body (just enough)
Decode the latest overhyped health headlines
Find compassionate, evidence-based care that works for you
And so much more

Packed with illuminating information, funny personal anecdotes, concrete strategies for coping, quotes from dozens of medical experts, and a foreword by New York Times-bestselling author of The Vagina Bible Dr. Jen Gunter, this book is the perfect companion for navigating our wellness-obsessed world with a little less stress and a lot more information.

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Casey Gueren is the former Executive Editor and Health Director at SELF. An award-winning journalist and fierce advocate of accessible health information, she was also an editor and writer at Buzzfeed, Women's Health, and Cosmopolitan. She graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey with a dual degree in Journalism and Psychology. She lives in New York City.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Running Press Adult; 1st edition (October 5, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0762471832
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0762471836
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #949,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,450 in Anxieties & Phobias
- #2,795 in General Women's Health
- #3,616 in Stress Management Self-Help

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Great advice! From a healthcare provider

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2021

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Truly a fantastic author!! Hard to believe this is her first book. As a healthcare professional, it helps to hear from other experts in the field about different struggles that a lot of people and the general public may overlook. Health anxiety is so REAL and so much more common than you would think. This book explains it with so much poise and really helps readers feel not alone. I would recommend this book to any patient with health anxiety or anyone actually! And heck, when I read it I realized I, myself, am a bit of a hypochondriac. Thank you Casey for the helpful words for any audience. 10/10 recommend.

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Evinn

Great topic…by a great writer!

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2021

First time reviewer…thought the book was insightful for helping me deal with how my body is changing and being comfortable with it.

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Dolly Chugh

Useful and also Fun to Read!

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2021

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The former Executive Editor of Self teaches us how to break down the hype and focus on health. Incredibly accessible and actionable. And surprisingly fun and funny. I ended up reading the whole thing in one sitting!

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Nicole G.

Practical, Smart, and Supportive

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2021

I'm so grateful for this book! As a recovering hypochondriac (which I've now learned to call by two other medically recognized terms), I felt so much better both during and after reading this book. Casey's a seasoned health editor and reporter who also happens to suffer from health anxiety herself, so her perspective is invaluable when it comes to wading through all the muck available on Dr. Google. A must-read!

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Nadine K

You should PROBABLY buy it :)

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2021

Great read. Would recommend!

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A.D.

If you’re looking for a guide to dealing with health anxiety, THIS IS NOT IT

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2023

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Quite possibly my first ever DNF, but I cannot waste another second of my life reading this nonsense.

If you’re looking for a guide to dealing with health anxiety, THIS IS NOT IT. This book is one woman constantly talking about herself, her jobs, her opinions on our sex and health education, her VERY BIASED opinions on supplements, etc. This book has nothing to do with health anxiety or how to overcome it.

I forced myself to get halfway through. Once I hit page 100, I was done. The majority of what I read was basically just accolades about the authors life and career. Now, I understand that it’s important to know her background and where she comes from, but it has been covered over and over (as has her opinion on the topic of the lack of sex education in our school system.)

This book is also heavily biased and she doesn’t even try to hide that. She says that CBD and most supplements are a waste of money (pg 18) despite the fact that these help many people every day. She frowns upon suggesting immune boosting tips on Facebook (pg 26.) She feels it’s “rude” to put calorie counts on a menu???? (Pg 39) childish! She even claims that turmeric and probiotics are just “trendy” (p71) and suggests that people take things such as probiotics as a “badge of honor” basically virtue signaling (p 72). Yeah… people don’t take them for gut health or anything. They only take them to brag on Facebook that they take them. Okay. AND WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH OVERCOMING HEALTH ANXIETY?!

She rewords “information” over and over. All filler, no substance. And don’t worry, she will remind you repeatedly that she is a health editor who has reported on healthcare issues for sooo many years! I literally started tabbing every time she mentioned it. No, seriously, she NONSTOP talks about being a journalist and an editor.
Here are the examples I tabbed between pages 58 and 94…
“As someone who knows a lot about the way health content is created and distributed online..” p58
“I’ve written and edited a lot of these articles” p59
“..even when I’m editing.” p60
“As a journalist, I get it…” p64
“But as a health journalist..” p64
“I write health content..” p65
“As a writer and editor..” p65
“..of what I did as a health editor.” p70
“I’ve been writing health context…” p73
“…I spent the better part of my career as part of the wellness industry.” p75
“I was a full-time health editor..” p77
“..my years of health reporting experience..” p80
“I spend basically all day, every day thinking and talking and writing about health concepts that most people very rarely spend energy on.” p80 <—- thank goodness us average idiots have someone so much smarter to explain it to us! Constant condescension on her part!
“…as someone who has been writing about mental health for a long time..” p84
“I was a health editor” p90
“I was a health editor” p90 no, that’s not a typo either
“…says the health editor side of my brain” p94
“…being a health editor..” p94

Pages 56 and 57 were just ridiculous. She suggests that there are barriers that “disproportionately harm women, lgbtq, black, and indigenous people. These barriers she lists as living far from medical centers, not being able to take off work, coordinate childcare, and find reliable transportation, having language barriers, knowing that you won’t be able to afford the bills, growing up in a family that distrusts mainstream medical care, and previous trauma. What does any of that have to do with being gay, a woman, or black??? How are white men also not affected by those things? Biased garbage.

This book is a COMPLETE waste of time and money. I wish I could give it zero stars.

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Aimee

A lot of ranting not much advice

Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2022

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Struggling with health anxiety for years. Did not find very helpful. She tried too hard to be funny . A few helpful tips. Nothing that you probably haven’t read before else where .

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