If a hypochondriac thought that they could have a variety if stds because of a big increase in vaginal discharge can that person actually make themselves have symptoms of herpes, syphillis, HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, etc. especially after obssessively looking on information about all kinds of stds? Or could they really be having symptoms from the actual diseases? your help is very much appreciated.
Conversion disorder: a psychiatric disorder where a person has physical symptoms but no medical explaination. Secondary gains are present, usually the person needs to get attention or check out of life for a bit due to stress.
In the hospital, I see pts with conversion d/o frequently, usually with stroke symptoms. Hysterical pregnancy is possible to. I'm not sure why you would want to have symptoms of an infection, but it is possible.
"medical student's disease" is another one, a form of hypochindria, where excessively looking up diagnoses and seeing pts with then makes you think you have it too. Common with GI problems.
Basically a little bit of knowledge can be dangerous. the body is designed to run and maintains itself pretty well.
If you're concerned about something, go get tested.
Yes. Hypochondria can make a person go crazy, and after a while symptoms can actually appear!
Also remember cyberchondria – hypochondria induced by obsessive web searches. Unfortunately looking online for information about a disease can have us all convinced that we have cancer. In most cases a web search escalates fears and does more damage than good.
Here is a helpful article about Cyberchondria. myvoice.mygofer.com/mission_possi…
Hopefully you don't obsess over your ailments. Stay off the internet!
Here is my link of a question…
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People have even said I am worrying too much, and I actually have(don't know if I still do I got to the doctor today to see if it's still in me) Chlamydia… I have done the post a lot and one girl even said I should stop posting it. One guy said that he felt bad for my bf and that I was sick and that's what I get, so, I don't know… I am STILL worried, but if you read my post tell me what you think…