A colleague sent a paper published last week [1] in JAMA Psychiatry, one of the Big Five psychiatric journals. It was a long-term follow-up study of people given a diagnosis of what is now known as "Illness Anxiety Disorder," formerly as hypochondriasis as well as dozens of other names. In DSM5, it gets a couple of pages, not under the chapter for Anxie…
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