Hypochondria

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Hypochondria is excessive anxiety about one's health.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

50 min

Hypochondria is excessive anxiety about one's health.

The slightest symptom, seemingly benign (cough, headache, itching…) can be according to a person the hypochondriac heralding a serious illness.

If the health problems are imaginary, the anguish they arouse is very real.

The fear of the disease itself can generate certain physical reactions.  

Publicity

What are the signs of hypochondria?

How to treat and end this disorder?

• Pr Antoine Pelissolo,

  Psychiatrist, head of department at Henri-Mondor hospital, and professor of medicine at Paris-Est Créteil University.

  Author of: “

  You are your best shrink

  ”, published by Flammarion and I read editions.

• Dr Gloria Damoaliga Bergès,

  general practitioner and head of the emergency department and general medicine at SCHIPHRA hospital, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

• Michel Drucker,

  audiovisual host and television producer.

  Presenter of the program

  Vivement dimanche

  , on France 2.

At the end of the program, we talk about malaria and resistance to artemisinin, the main constituent of the latest generations of antimalarial treatments.

Malaria parasites capable of resisting artemisinin derivatives have been observed in Rwanda.

We take stock with

, Research Director at the Institut Pasteur, specialist in malaria (mainly diagnosis and treatment), head of the Genetic Unit of Malaria and Resistance.

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