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What is hypochondria?
Are You Suffering from a hypochondriac?
How does hypochondria affect the body?
Hypochondriasis or hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness. Hypochondria is an old concept whose meaning has repeatedly changed over its lifespan.
Hypochondria, or hypochondriasis, is a condition of extreme, preoccupying worry about having a medical disease or developing an illness. Patients experience not only...
- Almost everyone worries intermittently about illness. People with hypochondria live in dread that they have a serious disease . The symptoms they...
- Patients with Illness Anxiety Disorder or Somatic Symptom Disorder spend a great deal of time monitoring body sensations and visiting doctors. Th...
- Do you repeatedly check yourself for signs of illness? Do you fear that your sore throat is a sign of throat cancer or that your cough is the sure...
- Hypochondriacs typically have high levels of anxiety and are convinced they have an illness. They believe their concerns about their health are le...
- Hypochondria is not a voluntary condition. Hypochondriacs do not consciously will their symptoms of distress to manifest in their body or in concer...
- Traditionally, hypochondria has always been a diagnosis of last resort—a condition deemed present when a medical explanation is absent, that is, wh...
- The diagnosis of hypochondria presents a dilemma. Most patients present themselves to primary-care physicians to conduct an objective search for ev...
- At least 25 percent of all visits to primary-care physicians—and 50 percent of visits to secondary-care doctors—are for medically unexplained sympt...
1. : hypochondriacal. 2. anatomy : of, relating to, or being the two regions of the abdomen lying on either side of the epigastric region and above the lumbar regions. hypochondriac. 2 of 2. noun. : a person who is often or always worried about his or her own health : a person affected by hypochondria or hypochondriasis.
A hypochondriac is someone who lives with the fear that they have a serious, but undiagnosed medical condition, even though diagnostic tests show there is nothing wrong with them. Hypochondriacs experience extreme anxiety from the bodily responses most people take for granted.
- Internet searches. One indicator that you could be suffering from health anxiety or hypochondria is by the research you conduct online. Many people who are hypochondriacs notice small symptoms, usually things that aren’t serious at all, and they start searching for reasons for the symptoms.
- Multiple doctor’s appointments. When suffering from health anxiety, you will visit many doctors. No matter what your main physician says, you cannot stop wondering if something else is wrong with you.
- Complaining. Constant complaining to friends and family about your health is a sign that something isn’t quite right. Your mindset is toxic. It’s understandable to complain a little when you feel bad or when you’re going through a real illness, but constant complaining is a sign you could be a hypochondriac.
- Fear of future illness. Hypochondriacs have a horrible fear of the future. If this is you, even if you feel just fine physically, you’re usually in mental turmoil about future illnesses.
This is what it is to be a hypochondriac—what it is to live a life too often based upon the raw, carnal fear of inevitable, forthcoming, around-the-bend death. Though I was only recently...
Hypochondriac definition: relating to, having, or experiencing hypochondria, an excessive preoccupation with or anxiety about one's health. See examples of HYPOCHONDRIAC used in a sentence.
