I always feel sick, what should I do?
It's normal to see a doctor when you're sick. However, some "patients" repeatedly visit the doctor, but they still can't find out what the disease is, which is puzzling. In fact, this kind of person does have a disease, but his illness is not in the body, but in the mind and spirit. In medical psychology, this disease is called "hypochondriasis", or "hypochondriasis" for short.
Hypochondriasis, also known as hypochondriacal neurosis, is a neurosis with hypochondriasis symptoms as the main clinical manifestation. Patients who are overly concerned about their own health or a part of their body functions and suspect that they have a serious physical or psychiatric illness that is inconsistent with their actual health status, although the doctor's explanation of the illness or the objective examination is normal, is not enough to dispel the patient's preconceived notions. Often, hypochondriasis patients are accompanied by nervousness, anxiety, and depression, and seek medical attention for multiple examinations, and the use of general explanations cannot eliminate their mental concerns.
Character defects are an important pathogenic basis for the disease. This group of patients often has the following hypochondriacal personality traits: excessive attention to their physical health and life safety. Very sensitive to the feeling of discomfort in one's own body, too much self-attention, self-examination, self-suggestion, and even expanding the normal physiological ** sense into hypochondriasis conjecture. For example, heart palpitations and gastrointestinal discomfort can be extended to heart disease, cancer, etc., so they seek medical treatment everywhere.
This type of person likes to read all kinds of medical books and newspapers, pays special attention to and is sensitive to common sense of hygiene and medical information, and contacts themselves for no reason, hoping to find out the cause of illness and the secret of cure, resulting in unnecessary emotional reactions such as nervousness, doubt, worry and worry. Weakness, character defects, typical depressive qualities, and poor physical constitution are prone to hypochondriasis.
There are two main manifestations of psychological disorders in hypochondriasis:
Discomfort with hypochondriasis: a patient who feels discomfort or increased sensitivity to a part of the body and becomes hypochondriasis, or is overly concerned, and the patient's description is often vague. However, the description of the other patient is realistic, and the patient himself is convinced that there is no physical disease, but he always asks for various examinations, hoping that the doctor will sympathize, and the doctor's explanation and assurance are not enough to eliminate his hypochondriasis, so the patient is worried, anxious, anxious, distressed, with strong emotional colors.
Pain is the most common symptom of the disease, and about two-thirds of patients with hypochondriasis will experience pain, and the most common parts are the head, lower back, etc. The patient could not describe the pain clearly, sometimes even said that it was a whole body pain, but there was no evidence, so he sought medical treatment everywhere, went to various departments of internal and external medicine, but to no avail, and finally went to the psychiatric department. Such patients often have symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, and depression.
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