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Scared Sick

Connecticut Public Radio

Published August 19, 2011 at 8:05 AM EDT

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All the news about health and medicine we’re exposed to might lead some to healthier lifestyles...but to some people, all this information can cause a problem.

For hypochondriacs, a little knowledge about health and medicine can lead to a fear of everything that can possibly go wrong with their bodies.

Today, a documentary by health reporter Karen Brown called “Living with Hypochondria: The Real Costs of Imagined Illness.”

It looks at people who struggle with this disorder - and the impact on the health care system, already stretched thin - of individuals who demand expensive tests to diagnose disease that’s a part of their imaginations.

Dr. David Tolin of the Institute of Living will join us later to talk about hypochondria and other anxiety disorders - many of which don’t get very much respect from the public.

Scared Sick

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