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The 2013 DSM-5 replaced the diagnosis of hypochondriasis with the diagnoses of somatic symptom disorder (75%) and illness anxiety disorder (25%). [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Hypochondria is often characterized by fears that minor bodily or mental symptoms may indicate a serious illness, constant self-examination and self-diagnosis , and a preoccupation with ...
He says the condition used to officially be called hypochondriasis, but that in 2013 it was split into two recognized conditions and defined as either "illness anxiety disorder" or "somatic ...
SSD isn’t the same as illness anxiety disorder, sometimes referred to as hypochondria, which Dr. Dimitriu says is a stigmatized term. With illness anxiety disorder, a person is preoccupied or ...
Nosophobia, also known as disease phobia [1] or illness anxiety disorder, [2] is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia.Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), [3] pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), [4] sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia), [5] cancer (carcinophobia ...
There are several types of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder, hypochondriasis, specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, panic disorder, and selective mutism. [2] Individual disorders can be diagnosed using the specific and unique symptoms, triggering events, and timing. [2]
Somatosensory amplification (SSA) is a tendency to perceive normal somatic and visceral sensations as being relatively intense, disturbing and noxious. It is a common feature of hypochondriasis and is commonly found with fibromyalgia, major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and alexithymia.
In the DSM5 illness anxiety disorder is the new diagnosis for about 25% of previously diagnosed hypochondriasis and 75% of the rest are now classified as having "somatic symptom disorder".page 310. In the UK it is now classed as either Health anxiety or a Generalised anxiety disorder. --Iztwoz 15:19, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
Hypochondriasis – somatoform disorder that involves an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness Hysterical contagion – effect in which a group exhibits physical symptoms due to a psychological cause Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback