8/04/2009

Disease of hypochondria


The term hypochondria comes from the Greek hypocondros It means that "under the ribs" and actually refers to the lateral regions of the upper abdomen. In such reglones are the lower rib cage.

Hipocondral largest organ is the liver, and curiously the syndrome of hypochondria takes this name because the Greeks believed that the disease originated in the malfunction of the liver to secrete bile. The disease is that the hypochondriac feel sick and stressed, even if the doctor says no, and in fact, is not wrong, only that their illness is emotional. The hardest thing to deal with these healthy patients is that they need their illnesses because they are symptoms of other problems that simply refuse to face.

It can be a kind of defense or can function as a way to draw attention, but regardless, diseases are perceived to know that the key person is not calm in emotional level. Removed to prevent their disease, will refuse to attend a psychologist and looking to live up to the doctor who tells you it is sick, or even look at other options such as traditional healers or medicine that is not traditional, to follow sending medicines and who not to deny their illness.

The problem is that at very advanced levels, the patient is imagining your symptoms, just imagine the disease, but pain, fever, vomiting, heartburn, or any other sign of the disease is real, as he himself the causes from his unconscious. One of the main problems is that these patients are taking medications for many diseases that do not exist, they cause damage to your body that can become really sick.

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