"Hypochondriacs tend to have a specific preoccupation – cancer, infertility, an – and scan their body for evidence to support this conviction, which sets off the “falling dominos of catastrophisation”. But hypochondria also overlaps with and (when or emotion manifests as pain, weakness or similar symptoms that don’t fit a pattern that can be readily explained)."
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