People with health anxiety have dysfunctional beliefs about health and illness. One common belief among health-anxious people is that they are weak and particularly vulnerable to sickness or disease.

Health anxiety, often interchangeably referred to as hypochondriasis or illness anxiety disorder, is a psychiatric condition marked by excessive worry over one’s health despite medical reassurance.

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