Hypochondria: illness or mood?

Surely any young man if she wants to stay young and healthy as possible. Many of them are afraid of old age. And with age often associated disease. This is quite normal. However, there are also panicky fear any serious health changes for the worse. In this case, the person can take out of the rut even the common cold. As a result – the strongest stress or even a nervous breakdown. This condition is called hypochondria.
Often hypochondria confused with a bad mood, depression or basic Blues. Hypochondriac called people exposed to hypochondria. They are not very hard to recognize: they are insecure, prone companies in themselves and often experiencing guilt. Although hypochondria can also develop in healthy people. The impetus for this can serve as a contemplation of the results of any illness of a loved one. Such people begin to «treat» pills, medicine, regular visits to the clinics. Though physically they are likely perfectly healthy.

Hypochondriacs often nervous and worried for his health, digging in medical encyclopedias and reference books in search of symptoms that allegedly they have. Hypochondria is more of a mental illness than decadent mood, so a hypochondriac can be called in sick. However, if we look in his medical card, and we’ll be surprised how much this person is healthy. And the complaints about the terrible pain is just a figment of his imagination.

As already mentioned, the fear of a serious and even incurable diseases peculiar to almost everyone. And this is a perfectly normal feeling to be adjusted. But that’s with obsessive fears to fight. Should be a person in the clinic to the doctors conducted a comprehensive examination of the body «patient». Most often such people calm down, seeing that they really healthy.

There is yet another method of autogenous training. You only need to constantly and gently saying, hint imaginary patient on his good health and how good it looks. Starting persuade ourselves already independently, a hypochondriac can quickly cope with the disease.

But give hypochondriac drink pills and medicine impossible. Such a person as a result of uncontrolled medication may they poisoned. Also worth remove from zone access the «patient» any medical literature and restrict viewing all sorts of programs about health and medicine. ‘t pretend hypochondriac that he was in perfect health, and disease will disappear just as suddenly as it appeared.