Contents:
- Medical Video: Symptoms of Brain Tumors
- Characteristics of people who feel sick but are actually healthy
- 1. Always seek justification for allegations about his health
- 2. Like to check health improperly
- 3. Mild symptoms are associated with serious illness
- 4. Always feel sick
- 5. Perform the same health test many times
- 6. Avoid appointment with a doctor
- 7. Continue talking about his health condition
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Do you know people who always feel sick when in fact are healthy? Or maybe you experienced it yourself? Anxiety and excessive fear that he has a dangerous disease is called hypochondria. In foreign medical terms, this condition is also called illness anxiety disorder or somatic symptom disorder. Usually, the characteristics of hypochondria will be seen specifically from the attitude shown daily.
Characteristics of people who feel sick but are actually healthy
You can only be diagnosed by a psychiatrist who has hypochondria if you experience various symptoms in more than six months. Among the many symptoms, here are some characteristics of hypochondria that you may have unconsciously.
1. Always seek justification for allegations about his health
People with hypochondria have excessive anxiety about their health. When you see a doctor and say that he is healthy, he will deny and feel something is wrong with his health. Therefore, he will continue to go to a different doctor even though all the doctors say the same thing: "You are fine."
If this happens, the sign is the problem is not physical but mental. Therefore, to calm down, ask yourself, for example, "What is the proof that I have a disease even though the doctor says it is healthy?". If there is no proof, keep in mind that it is just excessive fear that is unfounded.
2. Like to check health improperly
People who often feel sick may always carry a thermometer anywhere. Little by little he will immediately check body temperature with a thermometer because he feels anxious. In fact, there is really nothing wrong with his health.
He also may "collect" various medical devices such as tensimeter or blood sugar test kits even though there are no signs that he has a particular disease that must be monitored every day.
3. Mild symptoms are associated with serious illness
Forrest Talley, Ph.D., a psychologist and therapist from Invictus Psychological Services in California, United States states that people with hypochondria are usually famous for exaggerating. Symptoms of mild disease can be linked to dangerous diseases.
For example, if you have an itchy throat, this is associated with the possibility of pneumonia and a series of other acute respiratory diseases. This fear ultimately overrides your logic. You also always consider trivial symptoms as a big disaster that will threaten health or even life.
4. Always feel sick
People with hypokondrial thoughts are filled with worries about health conditions that are always bad. You are always dizzy thinking of the worst possibilities that arise in the body. In fact, your mind will move from thinking of one disease to another.
As a result, you always feel that you are seriously ill and have to see a doctor. It's no wonder that people with hypochondria almost always spend their time and money going to the doctor.
Although sometimes checking health conditions regularly can indeed detect the disease early, but if done excessively for no apparent reason is also not good for your mental health.
5. Perform the same health test many times
Another symptom of hypochondria is always to do the same health test repeatedly. You will usually find it hard to trust the results of a doctor's examination and the results of the test so that you will continue to request additional tests or conduct similar tests elsewhere. In fact, the actual test results are the same, namely stating that you are fine.
This is very tiring because you are constantly pursuing a verdict or a doctor's diagnosis that actually doesn't exist.
6. Avoid appointment with a doctor
Although it seems contradictory, some hypochondrial people choose to avoid appointments (appointment) with a doctor. Usually this is done because people with hypochondria feel very worried about hearing bad information about their health.
So he often ignores promises to medical check-up routine just because of his fear. In fact, if he turns out to have a truly serious health problem, avoiding the examination will actually worsen the condition.
7. Continue talking about his health condition
According to Lauren Mulheim, a psychologist at Eating Disorder Therapy in Los Angeles, one characteristic of hypochondrial people is to always talk about health problems they have. Because, people with hypochondrial thoughts are filled with various things so that they do not focus on other things beyond their health.
Not infrequently people with hypochondria always dominate conversations by continuing to discuss their health problems complete with concerns that he thinks as if his condition is very alarming and worse.
