How is hypochondria a mental illness?!


Question: How is hypochondria a mental illness.?
How is someone diagnosed as one.? and if one is a hypo, and complains about having a mental illness when their are really no medical tests other than brain scans and such, how do the doctors know whether to diagnose them with a disorder or to know that they are a hypocondriac.? know what i mean.?

How is hypochondria treated.? I really never have known its a true mental illness in itself.Health Question & Answer


Answers:
hypochondriasis is an anxiety disorder only diagnosed after a number of criterion are met according to the dsm 4. individuals with this disorder continually seek medical attention for suspected illnesses which usually result in contradictory medical evidence. or they are diagnosed with several vague, subjective physical illnesses (chronic fatigue syndrome, pain disorder, etc).

the problem is the individual who is finally referred to a psychologist or counselor for repeatedly showing up at the physician's office with nothing wrong - is insulted because they really believe they are physically sick and now they are being accused of it "all being in their head". so they generally resist being treated for a mental illness.Health Question & Answer

It's easy for professionals to diagnose someone with hypochondria just as it is just as simple as to diagnose yourself. If you have excessive worry about having a serious health problem, particularly more then one, then you have it. Many people have it but it they get no treatment for it because you really don't need a treatment for it. Today's society comes up with names for everything now a days. Of course, it is always good to get check ups every now and then to see if you are okay but if are told that there is nothing wrong and you still think something is then you still might not have hypochondria. Something could really be wrong. However, if you exaggerate it like I do, then you think that every little tingle, or pain is warning that some major is wrong with you and it isn't The best thing to do to help with this is to research on your own about hypochondria is. Research the symptoms and causes of particular illness you are worried about and it will help ease your mind.Health Question & Answer

if a hypochondriac try's to fake a mental illness they will only get so far before they start to say things that people with that mental illness really wouldn't say, and there will be too many inconstancies Health Question & Answer

If a person claims to be ill and there is nothing physically wrong with them (the definition of hypochondria) then what's left.? Know what I mean.?Health Question & Answer

Hyphocondria... hypochondria...
hmmm...Health Question & Answer



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