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.

David Veale is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at the Maudsley and the Nightingale Hospital, London and a Visiting Professor in CBT at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King's College London. He is recognised as an international expert on emetophobia and is the author of several books on the topic of health anxiety, OCD, BDD and depression.

Rachel E. Menzies is a Clinical Psychologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Sydney, Australia. She won the Dick Thompson Thesis Prize for her work on death anxiety and its relationship with OCD. Her article on death anxiety was featured in The Conversation Yearbook 2016, a collection of the top 1% of 'standout articles from Australia's top thinkers'. She has delivered workshops on treating death anxiety across 7 cities, hosted by the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy (AACBT).