What is hyper chondriac ? can anyone explain?

Answer 1

It's a person who always thinks they are sick woth something. They'll see one of those prescription commercials where they list the symptoms and freak out and call their doctor.

Answer 2

It is when someone makes a big deal out of nothing. Like if somebody had a paper cut no big deal right.Well with a Hyper chondriac Makes it seems like the paper cut is something you go to the hospital for.They exaggerate alot.

Answer 3

A Hyperchondriac is a personality disorder, characterized by healthy people felling that there might be some medical problem. Personality disorders are seen by the American Psychiatric Association as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the culture of the individual who exhibits it. To be diagnosed as a personality disorder, a behavioral pattern must cause significant distress or impairment in personal, social, and/or occupational situations.

Answer 4

hy·po·chon·dri·ac (hī'pə-kŏn'drē-āk') Pronunciation Key
n. A person affected with hypochondria.

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hy·po·chon·dri·a (hī'pə-kŏn'drē-ə) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. The persistent conviction that one is or is likely to become ill, often involving symptoms when illness is neither present nor likely, and persisting despite reassurance and medical evidence to the contrary. Also called hypochondriasis.
2. Plural of hypochondrium.

Answer 5

Hi :) A hypochondriac is someone who thinks they are always sick. Even if they are just having a cold they will claim that they are sick, and even if they have a cough or something they will say they are sick, basically someone who always claims they are sick!


an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
2.excessive worry or talk about one's health.

Answer 6

Hypochondria is :The persistent conviction that one is or is likely to become ill, despite reassurance and medical evidence to the contrary.

A hypochondriac is a person affected with hypochondria.

Answer 7

From my favorite medical terminology book: "hyphchondria--
extreme depression of mind or spirit often centered on imaginary physical ailments."

Answer 8

a hypochondriac is someone who is obsessed with their body and any little ache or pain is a deadly disease and they go to the Dr all the time

Answer 9

hypochondriac is the name of a person who thinks that they are sick all the time or that there is something wrong with them when there isnt

Answer 10

i think you mean "hypochondriac". It's someone who imagines illnesses and is preoccupied, even obsessed about things that are wrong with them. It can be a sign of a more serious mental disorder.