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Key facts

Medical condition.name

Hypochondriasis

Medical condition.synonyms

Hypochondria, health anxiety (HA), illness anxiety disorder

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Honoré Daumier, The Imaginary Illness ()

Medical condition.symptoms

Excessive and persistent fear of, or preoccupation with, having or developing a severe illness; excessive health care seeking

Medical condition.onset

Early childhood

Medical condition.differential

panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder

Medical condition.treatment

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)

Medical condition.medication

SSRI, antidepressants

Medical condition.prognosis

~50% meet criteria after ~1–5 years

Medical condition.frequency

~5%

Medical condition.alt

Physically ill man on a bed being tended by someone

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• Hypochondriasis.ReviewBehaviour research and therapy · 1990Warwick HM, Salkovskis PMDOI: 10.1016/0005-7967(90)90023-c
• [Hypochondriasis].ReviewRyoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 2003Isobe U
• Hypochondriasis and somatization.ReviewJAMA · 1987Kellner R
• The Health Anxiety Inventory: development and validation of scales for the measurement of health anxiety and hypochondriasis.Psychological medicine · 2002Salkovskis PM, Rimes KA, Warwick HM et al.DOI: 10.1017/s0033291702005822
• [Hypochondriasis between health and psychosis].ReviewSrpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo · 2008DOI: 10.2298/sarh0810559s
• Transient hypochondriasis.Archives of general psychiatry · 1990Barsky AJ, Wyshak G, Klerman GLDOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1990.01810200054007
• Is cyberchondria specific to hypochondriasis?Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Jungmann SM, Gropalis M, Schenkel SK et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102798
• Hypochondriasis.Archives of internal medicine · 1981Brown HN, Vaillant GE

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

mental disorder

Subclass of

nosophobia

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