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 DEFINITION
The hypochondria is the worry for the corporal functions fearfully to endure a serious illness. It is based on an erroneous interpretation of the physical symptoms.
SYMPTOMS
The physical symptoms that can be misinterpreted consist of abdominal distension, abdominal inconveniences in the shape of cramps, conscience of the cardiac beat and sudación. The patient describes the location, quality and duration of the symptoms with detailed thoroughness, but these do not continue an imputable boss any organic malfunction and generally they do not collaborate to any abnormal physical find. Not even the medical exploration to calm the patient they manage to relieve his fears, and this one tends to believe that the doctor has failed at the time of finding the real causes of his evil. The symptoms affect negatively to the social and labor functioning of the patient, causing him important inconveniences.
DIAGNOSIS
The diagnosis, which is suggested by the history and the exploration, is confirmed when the symptoms persist for 6 months, without being attributable to other disorders like the depression.
PROGNOSIS
The evolution of the process is chronic, with fluctuations in a few cases and more stability in others; about 5 % of the patients achieves a permanent recovery. The prognosis in a depression is usually a villain when this one arises in combination with hypochondria symptoms.
TREATMENT
The treatment is difficult because the patient is sure that it happens to him burden something; nevertheless, to establish with an attentive doctor a confidence relation can be beneficial, a special mind if regular visits are planned to calm the patient. If nevertheless the symptoms do not relieve the sufficient thing, evaluation and treatment can be requested by a psychiatrist or psychologist, simultaneously that the doctor keeps on attending to the patient.
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