How to know if I have hypochondria: its warning signs
Some people tend to have a constant concern to diseases and death, fear arising in certain situations of life that are usually related to it. Sometimes, we have all been worried about an illness but we have not developed it hypochondria.
The limit between having or not this pathology is diffuse, and it is the doctor and the professional of psychology who must determine if it should be treated. We tell you how to know if you are a hypochondriac and what are their causes. 
What is hypochondria
The General Council of Psychology of Spain establishes that some of the common characteristics of people suffering from hypochondria are the constant concern to suffer a serious illness.
This is concluded by a hypothetical personal interpretation of signs or symptoms (such as a simple headache) that falsely indicate that there is a disease.
Hypochondriacal people go to the doctor because they think they are sick, and although the professional says they have nothing, over time, they will have certain feelings of illness again.
From here appear certain symptoms that make the social life of these people difficult, leading to anxieties, depressions and other more serious conditions that must be treated.
Why it appears: possible causes
The causes of hypochondria are variable and depend on the person, their fears, their past, their experience ... Many people affected by this problem usually have had a previous problem, like a duel or a catastrophe that leads to a constant feeling of fear.
When these people have been throughout their lives, especially in childhood, enduring illnesses from someone in their family or at home there has been a certain repression before certain issues, it can also lead to a situation of hypochondria. 
Patients usually associate a disease with a traumatic experience when they perceive symptoms quite similar to those previously suffered.
Other people simply do not have past unpleasant experiences but, by nature, are usually negative and generally concerned. Stress, bad relationships at work or in social life can trigger hypochondriacal situations although there is no apparent previous relationship to it.
Normally, although there are exceptions, hypochondria usually begins in adulthood, the result of unpleasant experiences previously experienced. Besides having lived in the first person the serious illness or death of a loved one, or having periods of great stress, the hypochondriac also usually establish symptoms when there is much talk of a disease in the media.
Then they usually associate it with some condition that they may have had at some time (a mole, a strong headache, a dizziness ...) thinking that they have this disease.
Symptoms of hypochondria
Worry and fear are the main and first symptoms that manifest themselves in people who suffer from hypochondria. Subsequently, this translates into a constant anxiety about minor and normal symptoms that the patient sees as something not normal. 
Such symptoms are associated with those of a serious illness, although this is not the case. The irrational fear of dying becomes a constant tone in the hypochondriac. Obsession is another important factor and symptom, while some people doubt doctors' check-ups and diagnoses, believing that they are deceived and do not tell them they are sick.
Another common symptom is the search for information about your "supposed" disease, proving that you have some of the symptoms that are described related to it. With this, the patient is constantly self-examining, checking if he has a fever, if there are places in the body or if he has high or low blood pressure.
Although some may be, other symptoms are totally exaggerated. Thus, hypochondriacs usually suffer from various general symptoms, such as stomach, neck or back pain, constant palpitations, sweating of the hands, dry mouth, shortness of breath, nervousness, but at the same time being more tired of the normal thing by the stress that supposes to be all the day self-examining itself.
They also have dizziness and chest pains. Symptoms that usually come out during periods of stress and anxiety. This article is published for informational purposes only. It can not and should not replace the consultation with a Physician. We advise you to consult your Trusted Doctor.
