Concern about having or acquiring illness. Its intensity, interpretation, persistence and effects on functioning vary; health anxiety can coexist with physical illness, and concern alone does not establish a disorder.
Persistent and disabling concern about illness, often involving threatening interpretations, checking, reassurance seeking or avoidance. Its psychological assessment is distinct from deciding whether a physical illness exists; a clinical formulation must allow both to be relevant.
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