STAT June 17, 2024
A late-night Flomax commercial is sometimes all it takes for me to start spinning in a cycle of anxiety. If I don’t need Flomax to help me pee better, then I imagine I probably need a screening for prostate cancer.
I’m a hypochondriac. I’m also a health care executive with insight into how the U.S. health care system works — and doesn’t work — which may contribute to my hyper focus on health.
People like me are often dismissed by family, friends, and many doctors. Hypochondria gets short shrift in the mental health space, obscured by the overarching and broad category of general anxiety disorder. Even in the post-Covid-19 era, where mental health has taken center stage, hypochondria — also...
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