Difference between Mental Illness and Hypochondriasis

MENTAL ILLNESS vs HYPOCHONDRIASIS: NOUN

A mental disorder.
The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

A mental disorder characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.
A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health; a morbid and deluded belief that one is afflicted with disease.
Same as hypochondria.
Chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments

Dementia, Drug addiction, Depressive disorder, Manic depression, Alcoholism, Depression, Psychiatric, Personality disorder, Paranoid schizophrenia, Psychosis, Mentally ill, Bipolar disorder, Mental health, Schizophrenia, Mental disease

Prodrome, Hypomania, Psychopathology, Trichotillomania, Depressive disorder, Bulimia nervosa, Antisocial personality disorder, Symptomatology, Dysthymia, Affective disorder, Dysthymic, Dysphoria, Social phobia, Neurasthenia, Hypochondria

Ptsd, Substance abuse, Dementia, Drug addiction, Depressive disorder, Manic depression, Alcoholism, Depression, Psychiatric, Personality disorder, Paranoid schizophrenia, Psychosis, Mentally ill, Bipolar disorder, Mental health

Akathisia, Prodrome, Hypomania, Psychopathology, Depressive disorder, Bulimia nervosa, Antisocial personality disorder, Symptomatology, Dysthymia, Affective disorder, Dysthymic, Dysphoria, Social phobia, Neurasthenia, Hypochondria

NAMI believes that people with mental illness deserve access to effective medications that treat their mental illness.
When we see mental illness as an objective darkness that can be weaponized, it absolves those who think people with mental illness are evil.
Mental Illness Is the person using violence negatively impacting their mental health or causing or exacerbating their mental illness?
Priority should be given to persons with serious and persistent mental illness or acute mental illness.
Americans affected by mental illness, especially those with serious mental illness.
Grace identified fully with mental illness and mental illness constituted her identity as a person.
Dimensions of mental illness stigma: what about mental illness causes social rejection?
Examples of mental illness, when added to a definition of mental illness, help deepen our understanding of what mental disorders really are.
Mental illness affects behavior and behavior can affect mental illness, but mental illnesses are not behavioral.
Sandwiched between mental health and severe mental illness is a clinical category called mental illness.

Disease phobia and disease conviction are separate dimensions underlying hypochondriasis.
The Hypochondriasis scale tapes a wide variety of vague and nonspecific complaints about bodily functioning.
Studies have repeatedly shown a higher incidence of anxiety, hypochondriasis, and depression in IBS patients.
Generalized anxiety is common, but some women also develop panic attacks or hypochondriasis.
Pilot studies have adapted IPT to treat hypochondriasis, and initial results are promising.
SSD covers patients who fulfill the criteria of what was formerly hypochondriasis.
Examples of somatoform somato body disorders are conversion disorder and hypochondriasis.
Effects of attention training in hypochondriasis: An experimental case series.
Hypochondriasis, the excessive worry about having a serious illness.
No increase in the rate of hypochondriasis was found among the relatives of hypochondriasis probands compared with the relatives of control probands.