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BLOG POST 19: The HYPOCHONDRIASIS (Illness Anxiety Disorder)

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HYPOCHONDRIASIS or HYPOCHONDRIA , also known as Illness Anxiety Disorder (IAD). IAD is an extreme fear. Doctors, the patient has only mild symptoms or no symptoms of any disease, despite such confirmation, in the mind that such a patient has a serious illness or a fatal disease, such a dreaded delusion becomes. IAD may, as a sign of a serious illness, misinterpret normal bodily sensations or cause anxiety to become ill in those who have physical illness. This is usually a long-term condition whose severity may vary. The severity usually increases with time of stress and with increasing age. The most common age of onset is adulthood. Extreme anxiety is not the presence or absence of illness, but the illusion of never recovering and the mental inability to get rid of it. In 2020, the effect of HYPOCHONDRIA has been found in a large number of patients due to different symptoms associated with this disease in the emergency condition of corona. Features: 01.  Extreme anxiety or fear if...