For a hypochondriac, every day feels like a nightmare that keeps playing over and over again. Being concerned about your physical, mental, or spiritual wellbeing is a good thing. However, when concerns about health and morality begin to dominate a major part of your day, that’s a sign you need help.
Constant worry has its toll on the mind and can leave a person feeling exhausted and stressed out all the time. In this blog, we’ll provide you with the information you need to overcome hypochondria.
Categories of Hypochondria
People with hypochondria or hypochondriacs are generally split into 2 types. The first type adopts an avoidance behavior. It’s when the person avoids engaging in activity out of fear of sustaining injuries. Continual avoidance often worsens the situation especially if the person begins to ignore medical attention.
The second type refers to people who incessantly seek reassurance and information from friends, family, the doctor, or those around them. This involves undertaking a considerable amount of anxiety and stress which are known to lead to depression and panic attacks. The process continues and the person is left stuck in a cycle from which escaping proves extremely difficult without external intervention.
What Causes Hypochondria?
While we’re not completely sure how a person becomes a hypochondriac, it’s hypothesized that the problem usually starts at childhood. It involves people who had parents or caregivers who constantly worried about health.
It could’ve also been an illness or disease a person contracted during childhood that causes them to become overly concerned. The following can also be possible reasons:
- A serious illness or death in the family that caused the condition.
- Stress overload.
- Possessing a personality type that involves worrying and overthinking.
How Hypnosis Helps
An overactive imagination is also considered a possible cause for hypochondria where the sufferer mentally escalates even the smallest of issues into life-threatening illnesses. A hypnotherapist can help a person enter an extremely relaxed state of mind and rationally combat negative thoughts and patterns.
Damaging thoughts are eliminated with suggestive techniques which also help to ease anxiety and instill a rational outlook on health and illnesses.
Ultimately, hypochondria is a mental illness and one that can be eliminated using tried and tested methods. Rekha Shrivastava is a certified rehabilitation counselor and hypnotist at Blossom Hypnosis. She uses tried-and-tested hypnosis techniques to counter depression and emptiness as well as hypochondria. Contact us today to book a free consultation session in Pittsford, New York!
Rekha also offers Skype sessions to clients not residing in Rochester, NY.
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