Introduction: Delusion of pregnancy is a bizarre delusion in which one feels s/he is carrying a fetus. The etiology is unknown, but aloneness, masturbation, and stress may precipitate this disorder. Case Presentation: We introduce a young, single man who has delusions of pregnancy. This type of delusion is not a well-known disorder; based on investigated ...

In a short chapter on prognosis and therapy several useful signs indicative of hypochondria are presented: if the patient refers to his complaints rather interpretively; if he seems to present his complaint for discussion and for the sake of presentation only; and if the patient has visited a great many physicians with the same problems over many years with a net effect of an increase in his wo...

Depression can be disguised by somatic symptoms, chronic pain, hypochondriacal or psychosomatic disorder. The predominant somatic presentation may render such cases to be misdiagnosed, wrongly investigated and treated. In this study 30 consecutive patients diagnosed as MDP Depression, who lacked sadness but presented with chronic pain have been described. The patients were mainly female, middle...

General practitioners' views about premenstrual symptoms and about the women who suffer from them were sought by means of a postal questionnaire. An hormonal aetiology was favoured by the majority of the doctors and significantly more female than male doctors held this view. There was a diversity of opinion about the most appropriate management; the most favoured treatments were with progestero...

The most common monosymptomatic hypochondriacal psychosis encountered by a dermatologist is delusions of parasitosis. In this condition, patients have an "encapsulated" fixed, false belief that they are infested with parasites or have foreign objects extruding from their skin. The patient will often experience feelings of biting, crawling and stinging related to the delusion. Most patients do n...

Abstract Background A widely held belief is that “Medical student syndrome” frequently experienced by young medical students, is, they experience the symptoms of diseases are studying or fear having such illness. hypothesis because students constantly learn about life-threatening conditions and diseases, persistent stress regarding a severe condition, an anxiety-related illness called nosophobi...