Overview

Hypochondriasis (or hypochondria, sometimes referred to as health phobia) refers to an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness. Often, hypochondria persists even after a physician has evaluated a person and reassured him/her that his/her concerns about symptoms do not have an underlying medical basis or, if there is a medical illness, the concerns are far in excess of what is appropriate for the level of disease. Many people suffering from this disorder focus on a particular symptom as the catalyst of their worrying, such as gastro-intestinal problems, palpitations, or muscle fatigue.

Hypochondria is often characterized by fears that minor bodily symptoms may indicate a serious illness, constant self-examination and self-diagnosis, and a preoccupation with one's body. Many individuals with hypochondriasis express doubt and disbelief in the doctors' diagnosis, and report that doctors’ reassurance about an absence of a serious medical condition is unconvincing, or un-lasting. Many hypochondriacs require constant reassurance, either from doctors, family, or friends, and the disorder can become a disabling torment for the individual with hypochondriasis, as well as his or her family and friends. Some hypochondriacal individuals are completely avoidant of any reminder of illness, whereas others are frequent visitors of doctors’ offices. Other hypochondriacs will never speak about their terror, convinced that their fear of having a serious illness will not be taken seriously by those in whom they confide.

What Your Neurosis Confirms

Antisocial Neurosis:
Your nature is to wield others. Of course being more intelligent, you have a higher self value and the generalized other is a jerk.

Anxiety Neurosis:
This is a self imposed shield. Unacceptable thoughts that you do not allow yourself, the worry wart in you assists you in not having made the wrong choice, and this is why you prefer avoiding having to make any kind of choice.

Borderline Personality:
As the condition implies, this personality is afflicted with an indefinite, doubtful view of self. Suffering from low self worth and disorientation of exactly who you are, you are constantly up down and in the middle, but rarely stable.

Depression Neurosis:
Feeling powerless, you blame others for your misgivings. Your exaggerated anticipations of others have left you disgruntled.

Garden Variety Neurosis:
You have symptoms of various neuroses. You prefer being out of it and dull, believing that you can't be special at anything in particular. You have a touch of every weird reaction-that's certainly outstanding.

Hypochondria:
You are emotionally in need of others-and somewhere in your upbringing, you probably noticed that when someone was sick they suddenly became the center of attention, moreso than when they were well. This having impressed you, you closely followed suit. The slightest symptom of anything convinces you that it's all over.

Hysterical Neurosis:
Violence and passion reflect your get up and go. Your pressing on others is due proportionately to what you believe was actually dished out to you.

Narcissism:
In psychoanalysis, the first stage of sexual development, in which the self is an object of sexual pleasure. This is payment for being unsure of yourself and having false and aggrandized self perception.

Obsessive-Compulsive Neurosis:
Only rigorous counsel can prevent impetuous behavior. Your reactions to the 't', both regulates you and does not allow you to wiggle out of your seat.

Paranoia:
The approach that many psychoanalysts take with their patients in dealing with the paranoid personality, is to directly or indirectly ask them what they did wrong to make others stare at them. The marked reaction is often candid. The paranoid builds up a superiority complex, actually due to a self image of very low value, consistent with having divorced himself from reality.

Psychoanalytic Neurosis:
Every person, place or thing gets you mad. Though you know that you must alter something, fear stops you.

Psychosomatic Illness:
You'd love to be sick, then you'd certainly be the center of attraction. Somewhere along the line you have confused being ill and the attention being given to one that is ill, with admiration, and have erroneously linked them.

Schizoid:
A mental disorder characterized by indifference, withdrawal, hallucinations, and delusions of persecution and omnipotence. Being removed and standoffish is your way of self preservation. Now no one can discard you.



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Added: November 10, 2008
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