The New York Times: A New Approach to Treating Hypochondria

Thought this was, generally, utter bollocks but useful to get some insight into what 'the other side' think I suppose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/well/a-new-approach-to-treating-hypochondria.html

 

Is there cognitive behaviour therapy for the belief that unexplained equals imaginary?

 

This whole area looks such a mess. Some people do have real problems with health anxiety, getting caught up in concerns about any health problem they just read about, fears about potential health problems in the future, etc, but I have little confidence in some doctors ability to distinguish that from other people's concerns about symptoms that are poorly understood by the doctor.

 

seems like the writer was mirroring or more than likely making up the experience just to make a persuasive intro . what happened to the belief that many sick people with niggling symptoms avoided going to any doctor until their symptoms gave them no choice this was mentioned by public health info commercials regarding the late diagnosis of cancer. late diagnosis =patients fault taking yourself to the doctors with symptoms that particular doctor doesn't immediately give a diagnosis for then that must also be the patients fault . back to the familiar circular arguments from so called psychs your damned if you do damned if you don't and every one in the medical industry does not have to feel any responsibility .

 

I don't suppose accurate records are kept about how often this persistent anxiety is fatal?

 

It's that old saying: doctors get to bury their mistakes.