Does hypochondriasis magnify the symptoms?

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Hypochondriasis, also known as hypochondriac neurosis, mainly refers to the patient's worry or belief of suffering from one or more serious physical diseases. The patient complains of physical symptoms and repeatedly goes to see a doctor. Although the patient's worry can not be dispelled by repeated negative medical examination and the doctor's explanation without evidence of corresponding diseases, it is often accompanied by anxiety or depression. Doubts or preconceptions about physical deformities also belong to this disease. Does hypochondriasis magnify the symptoms? Let's talk about it

Does hypochondriasis magnify the symptoms?

(1) the concept of hypochondriac preemption. Patients insist that they have one or more serious physical diseases. Patients focus on their own worries or believe in their own diseases, and pay too much attention to their own physical feelings. But it did not reach the level of absurdity and delusion.

(2) body complaint of discomfort. Under the control of the concept of hypochondriasis, patients make hypochondriac explanations for the usual physiological phenomena and abnormal feelings, and show corresponding physical symptoms. The chief complaint or symptom may be limited to a certain part, organ or system, or may involve the whole body. There are many forms of symptoms in different patients, some of them are very specific, and the symptoms described are vivid and lifelike, which are manifested as the disease feeling with clear positioning. There are also some patients with unclear positioning of the disease, the nature of fuzzy, difficult to express, only know that their own body disease, poor state. Some patients have doubts or preconceptions about body deformation, and think that a certain part of their body (nose, face, eyes or female chest, etc.) is deformed or ugly. Therefore, patients everywhere repeatedly seek medical treatment, do all kinds of medical examination or surgery. Although all kinds of examination results are negative, the explanation and guarantee of different doctors can not dispel their doubts. It is easy to have conflicts between patients and doctors when they go to various departments of general hospitals.

(3) psychological pain or social dysfunction. Patients often have symptoms of anxiety or depression. Patients' worry about physical diseases is not commensurate with their actual health. Patients with hypochondriac symptoms caused by social function damage changes greatly. Pain is also the most common symptom of the disease, more than half of the patients complained of pain, common parts for the head, waist and chest, sometimes feel pain. The second is somatic symptoms, which can involve many different organs, with various manifestations, such as nausea, dysphagia, acid regurgitation, flatulence and palpitation.

matters needing attention

(1) Don't read books and other educational materials about medical health, which is an important principle of hypochondriac psychotherapy（ 2) Change the habit of going to the doctor and asking about diseases everywhere, and only accept necessary medical treatment unless there is a certain disease（ 3) To put an end to the bad living habits of constant self attention, self-examination and self suggestion, as well as groundless worries and doubts, is itself a kind of bad psychological factors, which is the fuse of inducing a variety of physical and mental diseases.