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I am sick dammit! I know I am!
Hypochondriasis is a type of somatoform disorder, a mental illness in which a person has symptoms of a medical illness, but the symptoms cannot be fully explained by an actual physical disorder. People with hypochondriasis are very worried about getting a disease or are certain they have a disease, even after medical tests show they do not. Further, these people often misinterpret minor health problems or normal body functions as symptoms of a serious disease.
Links
- Alternative Health
- East vs West
- Know Your Own Mind - Hypochondria
- Questionnaire and answers to see if one has hypochondria.
- Hypochondria
- Written by Ingvard Wilhelmsen, MD, Ph.D. Introduction to hypochodria, symptoms, and treatment.
- ParenTalk Newsletter: Hypochondria
- Gives some causes why some adolescents suffer from this illness.
- Body Dismorphic Disorder
- Article describing BDD, individuals with the belief that a body part is deformed or defective.
- Somatization and Somatoform Disorders
- Diagnosis and treatment of somatization and somatoform disorders.
- Health Anxiety & Hypochondria Message Board
- Message board community forthose persons suffering from Health Anxiety/Hypochondria.
Topics
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Hypochondria: Woeful Imaginings
Amazon Price: $26.95 (as of 10/11/2008)
Phantom Illness: Shattering the Myth of Hypochondria
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Well Enough Alone: A Cultural History of My Hypochondria
Amazon Price: $22.76 (as of 10/11/2008)
