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Meanings of health anxiety in English
Somatoform disorder that involves an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.
Synonyms
Examples for "hypochondriac"
Examples for "hypochondriac"
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We have already seen how the sphere of the hypochondriac is narrowed.
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The file showed that Alexander, a confirmed hypochondriac, was also a miser.
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In addition to disdain for the concert arts, Gould was a hypochondriac.
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As it is, you are an intellectual fault-finder and a physical hypochondriac.
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His hair was not so gray, and his face was less hypochondriac.
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They faint and swoon, have panic attacks and hypochondria the whole time.
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Especially is this true of those who suffer from fits of hypochondria.
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Hysteria, hypochondria and neurasthenia are increasing with fearful rapidity among both sexes.
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Even his blackest hypochondria had never envisioned quite so miserable a catastrophe.
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His naïve confidence in life and himself ended in jealous misanthropy and hypochondria.
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Antoninus Musa cured Caesar Augustus of hypochondriasis by means of this plant.
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Charles the sixth, of France, was particularly afflicted with the hypochondriasis.
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Forms of climacteric insanity are delirium, mania, hypochondriasis, melancholia, irresponsible impulses, and the perversion of moral instincts.
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When admitted he was in a state of melancholic hypochondriasis; he was the very picture of abject misery.
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Within the constipated group, the NTC subjects had significantly higher scores on the IBQ dimensions of hypochondriasis and disease affirmation.
Usage of health anxiety in English
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Results: Both groups reported increased health anxiety and somatic sensitivity after 12 weeks.
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Conclusions: The symbolic play paradigm provided discriminating insights into health anxiety in children.
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Eighty-four families completed play and questionnaire assessments of health anxiety and psychological functioning.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to increase risk for the development of health anxiety.
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Having half the population in this heightened state of health anxiety is not good for society.
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The findings suggest that childhood RAP may be associated with higher levels of parental health anxiety.
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The current study investigates threat related attentional bias in participants with varying degrees of health anxiety.
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However, nonattendees reported more health anxiety on follow-up.
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Results suggest a vigilance avoidance pattern of selective attention associated with pictorial illness related stimuli in health anxiety.
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Objectives: To explore health anxiety in children with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) using a symbolic play assessment.
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Experts say health anxiety is a significant drain on health services and leads to unnecessary, invasive and expensive medical tests.
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Main outcome measures evaluated health anxiety, somatic sensitivity, reassurance by a physician, psychopathology, post-traumatic stress symptoms, fatigue and quality of life.
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Mothers of children with RAP had higher levels of health anxiety, and rated their children as having more physical symptoms and anxiety.
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Substantial positive correlations of health anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, and absorption with difficulties to disengage from threat were detected at 500ms exposure time.
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Cognitive-behavioral models of health anxiety stress the importance of selective attention not only towards internal but also towards external health threat related stimuli.
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Time 1 intolerance of uncertainty was uniquely associated with the Time 2 health anxiety dimension of body vigilance.
Translations for health anxiety
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