Introduction:
When people undergo heath related anxiety it is called 'Hypochondria'. It is an excessive and irrational fear and worry about having a serious medical issue.
People suffering from hypochondria are always pre-occupied with their health to the extent that it impacts their everyday life. This condition is marked by a person's imagination of the illness.
Signs and Symptoms:
A few symptoms of someone suffering from hypochondria:
- Constant fear of contracting a disease or a belief that one has some disease
- Always consults the doctor and gets various tests done, without any problem at hand
- Sometimes fear of seeing a doctor, in the anticipation that the thought about the disease might come true
- Always anxious and worried about one's health
Causes:
This generally starts in early adulthood. It can be triggered by many reasons:
- If the person as a child had been sick for unusually long time
- In case he/she has seen one of the parent's falling sick quite often
- May be the person has witnessed terminal illness and related death in the family as a child.
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