Hi, I understand the man to a great extent, because I'm experiencing something like this, but in lighter form.
I can't say if it's the same with him, but the most excruciating thing for me is fear itself. He paralyzes you, grabs you by the throat and doesn't let you enjoy absolutely anything in life. It's an absolute nightmare. At some point, you just want this torture to stop.
I guess that's what weighs on your family.
A key point is the realization - whether he understands that there is a problem with the psyche. If he is aware, then with appropriate treatment with a specialist (not talking about drugs, but about therapy) and a lot of patience on the part of loved ones, the problem is solved.
If he does not realize, however, it should be approached very carefully. If he talks directly about mental health treatment, and the person is convinced that he is physically ill, he can step away from the relatives (and right now he needs you).
As for the other questions: it is very possible that these experiences have unlocked this state. As far as I've read, some people are just predisposed in the first place.
As for the suggestion of ailments- this type of people do not insinuate themselves. They just begin to deepen in their sensations (often normal) or from the strong fear of getting physical sensations (lump in the throat, a feeling of suffocation, shortness of breath). Don't doubt that these sensations are very real and startling (for example, not being able to take a breath... )
Patience, understanding from others, awareness of the person himself and adequate help. This is not a disease, but simply a person's inability to cope with the stress in his life.
I wish good luck!
G30
Sounds like a mental health problem. Seek help from a psychiatrist/psychologist. Other doctors, instead of "implying" it, should send you to the relevant specialist. It's a pity that this is associated with such a stigma that everyone is afraid to let it go or say it.
There is no physical illness, but functional upset -yes! When I was young, I went through a similar condition. After numerous tests, I eventually got to a psychiatrist, but unfortunately, he only complicated things. At first I felt physically collapsed, and after the psychiatrist's medication, I turned into a rag. I read literature about diseases, became almost ready for a doctor, studied all the diseases. Most scary diseases (if the patient has them) usually ruin it for a few years. For me, this period lasted more than 4-5 years. Since, after this period, I am still alive, I began to calm myself down, if I had been seriously ill, I should have died for this period. At first I thought the doctors were incapable of detecting my illness, and so they told me that I was fine, but after those five years, I began to suggest that the doctors were right. Instead of illness, I started reading how to get out of this condition. I started doing yoga, auto-training, doing morning jogging, starting to eat healthy, then getting married, the kids came and gradually my life settled down, so I forgot about the doctors, but that's what will be required. But much also depends on the surroundings of the sick!
The psyche is a big thing, you know. His problem is most likely on a mental basis, but it does not have to be exactly a severe form of hypochondria. Sometimes our nerves are so stretched that it affects our physical condition. For example, each single dateter was nervous before an exam or on the first working day in a new form. And we all know the symptoms- nausea, stomach pain, tiredness, mild fever, shortness of breath. These symptoms can be quite mild, and we can get them out like severe flu and stay home. When I was a child, I had anxiety problems, I once participated in a conference from school, and it turned out that the classmate with whom we had to present a presentation together was gone. I thought I'd be the last to go out and talk to the audience to give her a chance to show up in time. The longer I waited, the worse I felt. I was shaking, I had a fever, my mouth was dry, my legs didn't hold me. I thought I was sick. When the conference was over, I magically healed. I came home with ferocious fatigue, slept for half an hour and woke up a new man. The physical symptoms at the time were terribly strong, but the reason for their appearance was my anxiety, not a virus. When stress is prolonged, even constant, the situation is different. In case you're nervous all the time, because you can't take the accumulated stress off yourself, you're sick all the time. For example, you hate your job, you go with complete reluctance, and you only have a break of nerves there. All of a sudden you feel like before you go to work and while you're there, you feel terrible. The workday is over, the irritant is removed, and you feel good again. If the irritant is constant, and you can't remove it, you get to unpleasant conditions. It's recently spread, so I believe you've heard the concepts of burn out and panic attacks. These two are a good example of cases where our psyche is so busy that it has an effect on our body. All these physical symptoms are a way for our body to tell us that we need rest or change. I mean, the gentleman in question may need to diversify and relax a little to heal himself. There's another option. A person who notices a small change in his body may decide that he is suffering from a serious illness, but not actually sick. Go to all possible tests and the results are more than good. Yes, but he believes in his problem, and that he doesn't find a diagnosis, he's been harassing him all the time. On the one hand, it's bad to hear a terrible diagnosis, but on the other hand it's much worse to feel a physical problem, and not having a diagnosis and not knowing treatment. In this case, you think you're sick, that you're dying, and nobody cares, and the doctors are incompetent because they don't find an obvious problem. In any case, because your friend has visited many specialists and has been examined many times, it remains to be considered that the problem is on a mental level. It leaves him to visit a psychologist or find a way to eliminate stress and stop thinking about diseases.
Hypochondriac is not a person who is unwell and wonders what is wrong with him and is looking for a check-up and diagnosis. Hippochondrrick is a man who is convinced he has a bad unproven diagnosis and believes doctors and MRI lie to him that he won't.
The situation with your loved one has become so serious because he feels betrayed by his loved ones for not trusting him that he feels bad.
My personal story gives me the right to tell you. When I started a severely regular headache at the age of 28, three times a week, I went through dozens of X-rated EEG scans and nothing, went on psychics and a little dilute the number of pains happened a week once. I kept telling every doctor and nothing. Three years later I told another doctor about the pain he thought of examining something else at a military medical academy, there on a color examination with an MRI they found a 3mm tumor in the head, but I did not have the symptoms of this particular type of tumor, I drank their pills for 2 years and no benefit, then in another hospital proved that I did not have a tumor and only a cluster of capillaries that looked like a ball , so it goes another 5 years and the pains last 5-8 times a month I can not get up all day from bed from pain. You're going to ask what it turned out, well, it turns out that the artery feeding my head is getting cramps, I've been prescribed medication, and i haven't had a headache like that in six months.
Would you say for me that I've been a hypochondriac for 10 years? Or rather that the different doctors I've gone to over the years haven't figured out exactly that, or maybe I haven't been able to accurately describe my symptoms?
I'il tell you, yes, apparently your friend has hypochondria.
Five years ago, my father died, and that somehow unlocked this disease.
That's a very bad thing. You're suggesting that there's something wrong with you, you go to doctors who say you're fine, but somehow you feel like they're lying to you or that they're not competent enough, and you start going to other doctors. It's a scary thing, you know you're fantasizing, but there's nothing you can do.
The best thing you can do is have your friend go to a psychologist. Really, psychologists help a lot.
From the author- we, his relatives did not leave him for a moment. After a thousand arrangements, he agreed to see a psychologist. After 3-4 sessions, he started making excuses so he wouldn't walk and stopped, and according to the psychologist, there was progress. Then he accused us of sending him to a psychologist because we thought he was crazy.
Number three, I'm so glad you handled this, but here's the deal- you fought it yourself. You've had to think differently, to play sports, to read, and to us it's a total apathy to everything, even to his own children. Instead of them being his stimulus. And those suicidal thoughts...
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