We all become anxious about our health at one time or another. Health anxiety, also referred to as hypochondria is "a belief that physical symptoms are signs of serious illness, even when there is no medical evidence to support the presence of an illness." [1] Those with hypochondria are often thought to purposely make up symptoms but that is not the case and are sometimes dismissed by doctors as "attention seeking." But hypochondria is a real disorder and those with it are often unable to...
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