PPT-  Hypochondria

By Engi Alabady What is it Hypochondria is a mental illness that makes you overly concerned about your health It is a severe form of anxiety People who have this illness cant control the symptoms They dont purposely make the symptoms The human body even when working properly sometimes does unexpected things like . An essay based on talks given at the North-East Network for Medicine and the Arts, St. Chad’s College, Durham, 16 June 2008 and Tate Britain,18 September As the ill affections of the spleen comp and the Refashioning of Medical Uncertainty Catherine Belling Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University, Chicago A Workshop for Fashionable Diseases on the shifting of the term through his The New Yorker:Online Only Hypochondria Q&A Capello and Groopman e morning and pass through the day that experience. These people seem unable to ever recover from havi VQ14. E2 VQ14. Wizened . (. adj. ) – . withered, shriveled, wrinkled. Viscous (. adj. ) – . thick, syrupy, and sticky. Vestige (n) – . a trace or remnant of something whole. Pejorative (. adj. ) - . By Erin Mumper. What is hypochondria?. H. ypochondria. noun. 1. Chronic abnormal anxiety concerning the state of one's health, even in the absence of any evidence of disease on medical examination. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXlXN84NiEI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD7Mzpw2Ga4. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD7Mzpw2Ga4. . What is it?. Hypochondriacs have the constant belief that something is medically wrong with them or that they have an illness or disease that they don’t really have. Period 5. Scott Kim. Peter . Luong. Case Study. A 45-year-old white male engineer presents to a primary care clinic armed with multiple internet searches on the topic of cancer.. He states that he “just knows” he has a GI cancer, "probably the colon or maybe the pancreas.". Hypochondri. a. Hypochondria is a somatoform disorder. Hypochondria is described as the abnormal chronic anxiety of ones health.. Hypochondriacs become unduly alarmed about any physical or psychological symptoms they detect no matter how minor the symptom may be, and are convinced that they have, or are about to be diagnosed with a serious illness.. Somatization. Disorder. A long term chronic disorder where the individual experiences pain in one of more parts of the body. Symptoms: . Physical pains that can last for years. Pain often includes problems with digestive, nervous and reproductive systems. and conversion disorders. AP Psychology -Period 7- Ms. Key. Paolo Amog, Charles Russell, Theresa Toledo, Tanner Hosfield, . Erin Paulson, and Nazia Rahman. Conversion disorder. Conversion . disorder. What is it?. Health phobia or anxiety where people are excessively worried about having a particular disease. . Categorized as a somatic amplification disorder – perception and cognition. . Condition is due to the result of an inaccurate perception of the condition of body or mind.. The hypochondriac is a complicated figure, often treated with scorn and derision, resented for making excessive demands on attention and health care resources. Lacking credibility but needing to be taken seriously, the hypochondriac is most doctors\' least favorite patient. Yet people whosuffer from hypochondria endure the anxiety of suspecting they are seriously ill, or are about to be, and having their suspicions and their suffering dismissed as baseless. A Condition of Doubt seeks to change the way we think about hypochondria, and to use hypochondria to sharpen our thinking about health care. It claims that contemporary hypochondria should be understood less as mental illness in particular patients than as a rational if maladaptive conditionemerging from gaps between doctors\' and patients\' expectations of contemporary Western medicine.Medicine relies on objective evidence to verify the absence or presence of disease. The hypochondriac struggles to accept reassurance that no disease can be found. Examining the tension between these two positions reveals insights into clinical reasoning and practice, into patients\' (not justhypochondriacs\') clinical experiences, and into our medicalizing culture\'s troubled understandings of health, illness, risk, and uncertainty. The book\'s four parts examine hypochondria as a condition of biology of medicine of culture and of narrative. Using a wealth of texts from the medical literature, published illness narratives, psychiatric diagnostics, online discussions, and popular culture, A Condition of Doubt is both anexample of, and a case for, the place of serious humanities scholarship in understanding medicine and in understanding how medicine thinks about itself and trains its practitioners.This book argues that over the last half-century, patients have become postmodern but medicine has not, and claims that hypochondria-as a shared cultural condition-can be addressed by rethinking both patients\' expectations of medical omniscience and physicians\' need to meet such expectations. Thismeans reconceptualizing hypochondria and, more broadly, reconceptualizing medicine\'s orientation toward the unknown