Hypochondriasis

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Anybody else suffer from it?

Sometimes I am scared of having it. Last summer I thought I was having an ectopic pregnancy and was hoping I didn't have one and then this year I thought I was maybe having Hemorrhoids because I was constipated and the poop wouldn't come out, even when I push.

But I don't think I have the condition over all. I have to be this way all the time right and for everything every time something goes wrong?

Hypochondriasis? Really? Perhaps you're being a bit hypochondriacal.

What is it?

This is no longer called hypochondria in the UK. This term has been deemed to be offensive and make light of a serious condition. The new name is psychosomatic disorder. I know this because it has appeared on my records. I used to have this condition quite severely but nowadays I don't worry about illness anymore. Unfortunately though I do suffer from real conditions such as psoriasis and recurrent strep throat infections. Even though I'm not actually visiting the doctor for fake things anymore, I still feel like they're looking at me and thinking 'what are you doing here?'

OP here,

I have convinced myself I have had tumors, hearts mumors, all personality disorders, schizophrenia, mental retardation, name something. I have dwelled on it that I have it. I am under a delusion that I have every disorder.

No. Quite frankly, I rarely fear for myself in any physical sense, and the only reason I ever go to the doctor is if something is bothering me, has been for a while and I've become sick of it, or my family has insisted I go.

As someone with OCD, however, many doctors assume I am indeed a hypochondriac, and as a child, this caused me to suffer from an undiagnosed malady for many years, which turned out to be a genetic disorder, and this same assumption almost landed me in the hospital with pneumonia.

I do not have this issue with my current doctors, however, and most of my complaints have been backed up by abnormal test results.

For those of you who are hypochondriacs, however, I have one bit of insights that you should attempt to take to heart.

Life is fatal. You will die someday. Get over it....or as Ellen Muth once said "If you have one foot in the past and the other in the future, you're pissing on the present."

I think I do not, but I think some doctors would say otherwise. Most recently, I told some doctors about some terrible side effects I had once experienced after taking a certain medication, and then I was told that same medication was going into my IV at that very moment (and I was having no trouble with it). Concerning that particular medication, however, I now believe there were some additional factors at the time of those side effects.

Yes, but death is not the issue as much as is the pain preceding it.

I am not worried about death. I am more worried about going insane.