Assertion: hypochondria | /r/HasProperty | an anxiety disorder
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text: Also called health anxiety or illness anxiety disorder, hypochondria is an anxiety disorder that makes you worry excessively about your health.
text: My hypochondria, which in the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is called Health Anxiety Disorder, may have been reinforced by my father’s death of esophageal cancer at 62, an illness that seemed to come out of nowhere, display itself as a bunch of bumps that resembled cysts and bug bites, and then kill him in just 10 months.
text: Hypochondria is an anxiety disorder--not the product of an overactive imagination.
text: Hypochondria, which is now called illness anxiety disorder, is defined as the excessive worry that you are or may become seriously ill.