{"id":78197,"date":"2021-01-21T10:08:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=78197"},"modified":"2023-03-29T05:02:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T05:02:51","slug":"hypochondria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/hypochondria\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypochondria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morbid anxiety about one\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A condition in which a person is too worried about his or her own health and believes he or she is ill.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Preoccupation with the physical functioning of the body and with fancied ill health. It may amount to a handicapping neurosis and dominate a person&#8217;s life. In the most severe form there are delusions of ill health, usually due to underlying depression. 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