Do you have illness anxiety (hypochondria)? Although the term hypochondria is often still used, the official label according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is illness ...

[Read: The psychology of irrational fear] Hypochondria, as Crampton highlights, is not just a lay term for a tendency to worry about illness that isn’t there. It’s a diagnosis that has existed ...

Health anxiety, which is characterised by excessive worrying about illness, is a real condition that can — somewhat ironically — make you sick. But it's also treatable.