Hypochondria - Health illness anxiety

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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