Caring for your health is inherent in every normal person. However, each relates to this issue in his own way. One neglects the observance of a healthy lifestyle, until the last he will be pulled on a visit to the doctor and will never take a pill, even from a headache. The second one, at the slightest ailment, suspects a terrible disease, begins endless trips to clinics and specialists and is very offended if he is not “taken seriously”. Hypochondriac - this is precisely the person who is overly concerned about the state of his health.
With regard to one's own condition, none of the extremes can be considered the right approach. It is impossible to calmly watch and indulge in the self-destruction of a person who abuses alcohol and nicotine, who does not care about all the recommendations of doctors and relatives. But even if hypochondriac lives in the family, this becomes a difficult test for loved ones. Such a person is constantly worried about his physical condition, he is suspicious, he always thinks that he is seriously ill. Doctors, of course, are unable to correctly diagnose his "exceptional case."
However, you should not think that everything comes down only to Moliere's "Imaginary Sick." This comedy character was constantly preoccupied with enemas, bloodletting and compresses. According to modern concepts and the international classification of diseases, hypochondriac is a mental disorder. Other symptoms are accompanied by similar symptoms - for example, depression, borderline conditions. The essence of the disorder is that hypochondriac is a person who is confident that he has physical illnesses, while the basis of all his ailments is psychosomatic. That is why it is believed that drug treatment is contraindicated for such people. The psycho-emotional state of a person in such cases is corrected by autotraining, hypnosis, the correct regimen of the day, and psychotherapy.
This disorder is accompanied by increased anxiety, fear, depressive mood. Hypochondriac is a person who is confident that he is seriously ill, therefore he is inclined to interpret any minor ailments as symptoms of a serious ailment. However, he cannot understand that his mood and attitudes are, in fact, primary. And only after them do they appear - as a result of fixing attention on bodily manifestations - various somatic disorders.
Since the disease is associated with increased anxiety and depression, the general psychological and psychiatric characteristics of a person’s condition will be a necessary condition for healing. Various test methods help to detect and confirm the presence of personality abnormalities. Since hypochondriac is a person who ignores “simple” explanations of his unpleasant sensations (pricked in his chest - means a heart attack, headache - certainly a tumor, and not just fatigue or change of weather), he needs the help of a psychotherapist. It should be noted that all sorts of “science-like” and pseudo-professional articles in newspapers and the Internet on the topic of health contribute to the development and spread of the disorder. Journalists just love to make a huge elephant out of a tiny fly, and pharmaceutical concerns interested in selling their products come to their aid. That is why the layman, who has little knowledge of medicine and the achievements of science, is so easily caught by a newspaper bait. And there only terrible diseases are not described ... Take care of your health, but wisely.