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Apples new iPhone 6 and Apple Watch will include a program called HealthKit pre-loaded with iOS 8 meant to pick up health metrics with sensors on the device. They wish to partner with medical companies to connect the info from your phone to your medical professional. Because it's a new invention there will be the expected inaccurate info causing a panic to arise and give hypochondriacs a panic attack or turn someone into a hypochondriac.
Psychological counseling, recognizing your disorder and seeing ways to stop. Educating yourself on Hypochondria. Some antidepressant medicines can help. Hypochondria affects men and women mostly equally and can occur at any age but develops mostly in early adulthood. It's not found in one ethnicity more than another. About 9% of the population is affected at one time or another.
http://www.loadthegame.com/2014/09/10/healthkit-facilitate-hypochondria/
The severity ranges from minor to extreme. Some may avoid medical professionals at all costs to prevent from being told they're sick. This is problematic because they become neglectful of their health so if they do get a serious disease they'll go undiagnosed. Hypochondria can also be paired with other mental disorders such as depression or anxiety. They may mistake some of the symptoms of these for other disorders. Hypochondriacs usually complain of pain in the head, neck, or core. The concern for illness must last at least 6 months. Some may even look for doctors until they find one who agrees with them.
They use hypochondria in movies mostly to exaggerate the germaphobes in characters. One movie is Madagascar. Melman the giraffe always believed he was sick. In 1000 Ways to Die they had a guy who died of soaking in a bath of rubbing alcohol after he touched the garbage can. Some people you might not have know who have hypochondria: Charles Darwin (came up with theory of evolution), Adolf Hitler (military leader), and Abigail Breslin (starred in Little Miss Sunshine)
T/F: Hypochondria is when someone always gets a serious illness. T- 40% F- 60%
T/F: To be considered a hypochondriac the problem has to persist for 6 months. T- 20% F- 80%
Have you ever thought you were plagued by an illness when you were just fine? Yes- 90% No- 10%
Do you know anyone with hypochondria? Yes- 30% No- 70%
What percent of the population has hypochondria affected?
a. 9% (50% chose correctly)
b. 35% (50%)
c. 2% (0%)
People with hypochondriasis are known as hypochondriacs. Hypochondriacs have health anxiety, meaning they see small health problems and believe it's symptoms of something more serious. They also need constant reassurance from someone but will still believe they have a serious illness. Even if a doctor tells them it's nothing they will still obsess over it.