welcome back to psych minded I'm your host Kalley Marie. Today we're going
to be talking about the new diagnosis of hypochondria. Thank you so much for
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so please be sure to follow me on there also. Today we're talking about a
really exciting topic. I've done some recent collabs with a fellow youtuber a
friend of mine named Trey Jones and his show or his channel is all about anxiety
and health anxiety. I thought it would be a really good idea to dive into
some diagnosis now of different anxieties and we're gonna start with
health anxiety. So this anxiety was formerly known as hypochondria but when
the dsm-5 came out a couple years ago they switched it up for a couple reasons
and essentially rebranded it so let's dive in and talk about it
so the dsm-5 is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for psychiatric
illnesses so any sort of mental illness that you get diagnosed with you will
have your doctor or your psychologist or psychiatrist go through and this guide
will tell them the symptoms that need to be present for how long and stuff of
that nature so when they did the dsm-5 they try to update it every I think it's
every couple decades not sure on that I'll have to double check and maybe
annotate that but when they updated the DEET when they did the dsm-5 the newest
addition they took hypochondria out of the diagnosis they did this for a couple
reasons for a couple different diagnoses they
wanted to take out some of the diagnostic names that had negative
connotations so we know that hypochondria can have sort of a
stigmatized it's never been represented very well in the media and so that was
one of the goals of the dsm-5 was to sort of take away and
to rebrand some of these names and hypochondria was one of them so what
they ended up doing hypochondria is definitely still a diagnosis it's just
no longer called that and it's much more specific so there's two different
diagnoses that they've divided hypochondria into essentially and they
now refer to them as either one illness or the other so the first one is known
as a somatic symptom disorder called SSD and essentially this is health anxiety
with physical symptoms so the typical symptoms of being concerned if you're
you know having certain illnesses show up maybe you have cancer maybe you have
you know some terrible illness that you are very obsessed over and maybe even
convinced that you might have this might consist of you know you're going to the
doctor and checking a lot trying to see if there is a problem the most prevalent
symptom is the health anxiety but with somatic symptom disorder you have
physical symptoms like fatigue and anxiety and maybe even like headaches or
stomachaches that go along and sort of play on the anxiety so you not only have
the fear of your health but you're also experiencing these physical symptoms
that are kind of making the anxiety worse and could even be you know part of
the anxiety causing the physical pain and so it can get people trapped in a
lot of different cycles mentally and cycles with anxiety and it represents it
shows up for everyone a little bit different just in terms of the somatic
symptoms and when we talk about somatic symptoms what we're referring to are
symptoms that have no apparent medical cause so that would be like the
headaches or you know fatigue some of those more general symptoms they may not
have a direct reason or a direct disease as to why they're present and so
somebody with somatic symptom disorder may mistake these symptoms or be
convinced and truly believe that they are experiencing a you know this symptom
as an indicator of something much more prevalent or much more serious somatic
symptom disorder is most often diagnosed it's about 75% of the time that somebody
with the typical hypochondria symptoms might be diagnosed with somatic symptom
disorder so most people that experience health anxiety are going to have the
physical symptoms along with it the other side of health anxiety the other
disorder that they diagnosed now is called illness anxiety disorder and this
is diagnosed only about a quarter of the time for somebody who's experiencing
some sort of health anxiety because most of the time it does have a physical
presentation but with illness anxiety disorder it's just the anxiety you just
have the fear and some of the obsessions and the doctor checkups and the visits
and that sort of thing the googling we should have talked about
that sooner I'm sure you have at one point in your life consulted dr. Google
for your symptoms that is prevalent in both of these disorders where there's a
lot of obsessive checking and research that kind of goes on and are in our
minds and on the internet to try to see if we are correct in our assumptions and
of course this only makes the anxiety worse so I highly recommend you don't do
that first of all and I'll make more videos in the future on how we can help
combat health anxiety and just anxiety in general but I really wanted to give a
good starting place and talk about these two new diagnoses and be sure to watch
my collab with Trey because he talks a lot about what this health anxiety is
all about he goes into so much great detail and depth on what goes on and you
know the mind of somebody who struggles with health anxiety so I'm flink that
below and everywhere you can find it because it's just fantastic so be sure
to watch that if you want to know more about what those symptoms are like if
you're experiencing health anxiety so we have these two new diagnoses right we've
got somatic symptom disorder which is the presentation of health anxiety along
with the physical symptoms and then we have the illness anxiety disorder which
is not as commonly diagnosed where you're just experiencing the anxiety
itself so if this sounds familiar to you or you feel can
learn about your own health be sure to visit your doctor and be sure to talk to
them about what you're experiencing if you are having a heightened anxiety
about your health it really is normal in certain
circumstances but if it is becoming a detriment on your life that is where
disorder kind of comes into play there's a lot of factors but we often mark
disorder and mental illness as the number one you know component being that
it's a it's a detriment on your life it's causing your your social life and
your personal life too you know Trey mentioned in his video that it's it was
hard to go to work it was hard to maintain relationships so it really
becomes something that you know leaks into every single area of your life so
I'll do more videos in the future on how to compat health anxiety but for now go
talk to your doctor but I will leave you with this understand that the core root
of health anxiety disorder either of the disorders is the way that these symptoms
are being interpreted it's them it's the things that the person with the disorder
is telling themselves about the symptoms that causes the problem so that's that
was one of the things that stuck out to me and my research is that it was the
way that it was interpreted so the good news about this is that it is possible
to get over you can learn to reinterpret some of these symptoms and again please
watch Trey's video so many good things that you can do like today to help you
if you are feeling really you know you don't feel like you have any empowerment
over your health so we will we will continue to explore this issue I hope
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