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Describe one specific eating, sleeping or psychophysiological disorder. I've selected hypochondriasis.

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Hypochondriasis is described in this solution, including symptoms of the disorder, treatment, and prevalence in society.

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Hypochondriadid is when a person thinks that they have a disease based on a few symptoms that they may or may not have even though tests have been done on them to say otherwise.

Some of the symptoms of this disease are a constant worry of having diseases, having this worry for at least six months, misinterpreting symptoms ...

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