Morbid anxiety about one’s health.
A condition in which a person is too worried about his or her own health and believes he or she is ill.
Preoccupation with the physical functioning of the body and with fancied ill health. It may amount to a handicapping neurosis and dominate a person’s life. In the most severe form there are delusions of ill health, usually due to underlying depression. Treatment with reassurance, antidepressant drugs, and/or psychotherapy is usual, but the condition is often chronic.
An abnormal concern about one’s health, with the false belief of suffering from some disease, despite medical reassurance to the contrary. This is a common symptom among depressed patients.
A somatoform disorder characterized by a constant fear of disease and a preoccupation with one’s health.