Hypochondriac Disorder: Oh My God Honey, I Have Mad Cow Disease!

Oh my god, I think I'm dying, I have this and this oh my god, and I have this symptom look, honey, right here in this book, it says that if you have any of these symptoms then you have Mad Cow. See I have three symptoms that they say are key factors in this Mad Cow, oh my god I must have it, honey get me the phone I need to call the doctor to see what to do.

More than 13.3% or 23.4 million people suffer from hypochondriac disorder which is considered a mental illness.

As I suspect most of you are probably eyeballing this article already looking for the symptoms that are stated to go along with this, then you will likely find at least two or three things here that you can for some reason agree with, and then it happens, you are in the mindset that you have whatever this article is about. This could be an article on the winter flu in the middle of the summer, on sunburn in the middle of a snow storm.

People with hypochondriac disorder experience symptoms, such as stomachaches or chest pains, and immediately jump to worse-case scenarios. According to Magellion Health Services

So go on, go run to the doctors go run to the emergency room, tell them why you are there, if you are having chest pain and say well I just read in a magazine a little bit ago, and they gave the signs of a heart attack, boy I had most of them, I was amazed that made me scared after that I had a headache and my chest starting to hurt and I felt nauseous. You have now just went from bring them in on the stretcher they are going to die here, to well I will call you paper cut Joe, you come in because you have a cut on your hand that might, just might lead to more things. At this point if you are lucky enough to see someone with the initials DR on a tag come into your room, just consider yourself lucky.

This is usually do to the fact that most people that come into the emergency room come there because there are feeling ill in some way, the triage nurses get you examine you and decide if you are needing to be seen right away or maybe if they stick you in the waiting room long enough those magical symptoms that you were describing might just go away on their own.

However keep in mind you so have something its called hypochondriacs disorder and as defined by the Merriam dictionary as: an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.

Now don't get me wrong I am not saying because you have chest pain and then look it up that it's this entire hypochondriac tendency. For god sakes please do go get checked out, you might be a fool not to.

But for people that go to psychology class and listen to the teacher lecture on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and then read the symptoms and oh my god , it strikes you as you are sitting there, you have it, no doubt about it, you my friend may have it but then again you may be experiencing the

There was a good article called The Chances Of Catching A Disease You Already Have, and in it was a great description of what I am saying "For many of us, simply going to sleep can trigger waves of paranoia. In the quiet darkness, we wonder... "Will a brain aneurysm steal my life tonight? Will I spontaneously seize and swallow my tongue? Is E. Coli spreading through my system from the undercooked hamburger I had for lunch? Am I coming down with the plague?"

We all live out lives in fear it is just a natural thing that we all do but it becomes a disease or condition or illness when it affects everything that we do.

A checklist for people to see if they might just have hypochondriac disease
Check the statements below that are true about you or that you agree with.
You don't feel well or normal.
When you get the flu, you worry that it is something much worse.
You tend to learn many of the symptoms associated with rare afflictions.
You worry that you have a tumor or cancer.
You worry that you have AIDS, even though you are at low risk.
You feel faint at least once a month.
Even when the doctor gives you a clean bill of health, you worry about being seriously ill.
If you are even just a little under the weather, you see the doctor to be on the safe side.
When there is a new strange virus making the news, you are preoccupied with getting it.
You miss work or school a lot from being sick.
You tend to get bad headaches.
You get preoccupied with having a major illness, often for weeks at a time.
You worry about catching diseases when you are out in public.
People tend to comment on you being sick all the time.
You are afraid that you may die soon.
You tend to feel tired.
Even though you haven't had a serious illness, you tend to go to the doctor a lot.
You keep old, unused prescription medicine around - just in case you need it.
You take at least five pills a day (including vitamins, supplements, and prescriptions)
You are obsessed with medical shows both fictional and real.
You get stomach aches more than most people.
People don't seem to care when you are feeling sick.
You take vitamins and eat special health food compulsively.
You own more than one medical books, and you frequently consult them.
You take pain killers or Advil regularly, for random aches and pains you have.

I am not going to go into detail about what answering the above boxes means; at this point I hope you can see the pattern. However thanks to Blogthings millions of people can now do that above tally and put it on their myspace and so forth, no wonder we are a society that thinks that everything that comes out is something that we have.

Now to the sad facts there is no cure for people that suffer from this mental illness some people take behavioral counseling or cognitive counseling to assist with the feelings that are associated with this mental illness.

49% of people in the world are plagued with mental illnesses