Illness Phobia and Treatment Method
Phobias essentially are neurosis and they considered as medical problem, which is non-controlled by the patient. There are many kinds of phobias, from phobias where the patient can not react to the sight of an object, to the patients who cannot leave their homes because they are afraid of humans. However, the phobia which will develop in this paper is illness phobia or health anxiety and it is about the excessive fear of dying. Illness phobia also correlates from many scientists with hypochondriasis and some others don’t. In this paper they will be considered as different phobias, because “patients with illness phobia fear developing a disease they don’t have, instead patients with hypochondria are convinced
Phobias essentially are neurosis and they considered as medical problem, which is non-controlled by the patient. There are many kinds of phobias, from phobias where the patient can not react to the sight of an object, to the patients who cannot leave their homes because they are afraid of humans. However, the phobia which will develop in this paper is illness phobia or health anxiety and it is about the excessive fear of dying. Illness phobia also correlates from many scientists with hypochondriasis and some others don’t. In this paper they will be considered as different phobias, because “patients with illness phobia fear developing a disease they don’t have, instead patients with hypochondria are convinced