Introduction
A person goes to a doctor for treatment, but the doctor does not find any medical illness. Still, the person has a strong feeling of disease due to that person worry excessively about health; then there may be chances of illness, anxiety disorder, or Hypochondriasis.
Illness anxiety disorder is defined as a fixed idea and thought in a patient’s mind with a fear of having a severe medical illness despite repeated medical reassurance.
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Signs and symptoms hypochondriasis
- Headache
- Chest and gastrointestinal complain
- Body pain
- Fear of having a major illness
- abnormal awareness
- Complain of pain
- The feeling of tightness around the forehead
- Increase bowel sound
- Peristalsis movement in the stomach,
- Increase heartbeat
- Sweating
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Causes of hypochondriasis
- There are no specific causes of illness anxiety disorder, but the following things lead to IAD.
- Wrong beliefs
- History of childhood abuse
- Pandemic
- Depression and Anxiety
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Treatment of hypochondriasis
Supportive Psychotherapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- The goal is to develop healthy and adaptive behaviors
- Focus is on personal and social difficulties and achievement of practical solutions.
- Identify precipitating stressors and conflict
- Group psychotherapy
- Treatment of choice for somatization disorder and Hypochondriasis
- Provides social support and social interaction
- Clients can share their experience of illness
- Can learn to verbalize thoughts and feelings
Behavior Therapy
- Involve working with the family who may perpetuate the physical symptoms by rewarding the passivity and dependency.
- Focuses on teaching them to reward the client’s autonomy, self-sufficiency, and independence.
Psychopharmacology
- Following drugs used in somatoform disorder
- Antidepressant
- Benzodiazepines
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
- Antipsychotic drugs
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- What is Somatoform Disorder?: Treatment, Symptoms, Causes
- Antidepressant Drugs List And Side Effects
- Goals Of Supportive Psychotherapy
- Is Psychotherapy Effective? | All About Psychotherapy
- What Is Individual Psychotherapy And How It Works?
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