How Do I Overcome a Fear of Illness?

Disease phobia is one of the higher prevalence of neuroticism. Patients generally think that their diseases include tuberculosis, mental illness, leprosy, cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, acute infectious diseases, hypertension, and heart disease. One of the major characteristics of a neurotic patient is that he does not pay attention to the health of the whole body, but only believes that he has a certain disease. The patient's doctor gave treatment, did X-ray film, electrocardiogram, blood, urine test, etc., but found no abnormalities, but still can not rest assured. The patient stubbornly thought that he had a certain disease and insisted on receiving treatment.

Disease phobia is also one of the higher prevalence of neurosis, and it can be said that it is almost the same as terror. Patients with horror diseases generally think that their diseases include tuberculosis, mental illness, leprosy, cancer, sexually transmitted diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, acute infectious diseases, hypertension, and heart disease. [1]

Of course, most people pay great attention to their physical health, but one of the major characteristics of neurotic patients is that they do not pay attention to the health of the whole body, but only believe that they have a certain disease. . The patient's doctor gave treatment, did X-ray film, electrocardiogram, blood, urine test, etc., but found no abnormalities, but still can not rest assured. The patient stubbornly thought that he had a certain disease and insisted on receiving treatment. Some patients already know that they are not sick now, but they are convinced that they will get this disease in the future, so they will cause a huge burden on their daily lives. If there is a student who hears that the physical examination of the high school entrance examination and the genitals are also required, they are extremely afraid of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, and even feel terrible about using public toilets. Even when using your own home, wash your hands extremely carefully beforehand. The student passed through a STD hospital on the way to school, and was terrified every time he passed there, and finally had to make a detour. Another horror patient with syphilis read various medical books and believed that he had syphilis. He repeated blood tests several times and found no problems. The patient was still not assured. I heard that the cerebrospinal fluid examination was the most accurate, and that he had to endure the pain, and the results were still normal. Despite this, patients still believe they have syphilis. The number of leprosy terror patients is also relatively large. The patient found that her skin was slightly abnormal, and she was afraid that she was suffering from leprosy. Then she felt that some parts of the skin pushed her senses, and her eyebrows and complexion were abnormal. The patient heard that the leprosy was transmitted by the snot, and was terrified when he saw someone blowing his nose. [2]

Supportive psychotherapy: provide patients with the necessary knowledge, encourage and improve patients' self-confidence in fighting diseases, provide guidance to patients, and provide methods for treating diseases, managing various relationships and improving the social living environment. It is necessary to explain the "condition" that the patient thinks, and explain that there is no organic lesion in the corresponding part, to encourage the patient to fight their own mental illness, and to increase their confidence in defeating the "heart disorder".

When the patient is required to take action to cope with the treatment and the patient is hesitant, encourage him to take action. Give the patient appropriate guidance, tell him how to deal with the illness, arrange rest and life, how to deal with interpersonal relationships, how to adjust the relationship between various aspects of social factors, create a quiet environment and so on.

In fact, the treatment must be performed after the patient talks in detail, after a detailed physical examination and a certain laboratory examination. In this way, on the one hand, the healer can be aware of the other, and on the other hand, he can be cautious and gain the trust of the patient. Thirdly, when explaining, encouraging, comforting, guaranteeing, and guiding patients, they must be kind, clear and affirmative, explain profound theories in a simple way, be scientific, and have factual basis, so that patients can understand and be convinced in order to produce good treatment results.

Disease phobia is mostly caused by psychological factors. Therefore, in the treatment, doctors generally focus on psychological therapy and provide psychological counseling to patients to help patients correctly understand the disease and get rid of fear.