Timeline for Word for the opposite of "hypochondriasis"
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| Aug 16 at 9:44 | comment | added | lukstafi | For common / practical uses, I think, people are interested in "the worldview abnormality" of the afflicted person rather than a strict cognitive impairment. That's how I think "hypochondriac" is commonly (non-medically) used. So "hypochondriacs" are on a spectrum between excessive-preoccupation (pursuing any doubt as to their being in health) and delusion (believing to be sick), and their opposites, on a spectrum between excessive-indifference/dismissal (to/of symptoms) and denial (of being sick). | |
| May 24, 2021 at 17:25 | comment | added | Steve B053 | IRT Oxford's Medical Dictionary - " la belle indifférence - "An abnormal lack of concern about one's afflictions or disabilities..." Summation: Indifference is not denial. A patient could be given a diagnosis of Inoperative Stage 5 Kidney (Failure) imminent, and be indifferent to their own demise. Opt out of dialysis. Indifferent based on passive acceptance to real diagnosed condition is not an antonym to hypochondriasis. There, a patient firmly believes they are ill when medical diagnosis confirms they are not. An opposite is one where medical diagnosis confirms, but patient denies it. | |
| May 24, 2021 at 16:51 | comment | added | Stu W | La belle's is far more associated with dementias, including psychosis in the classical sense, than somatoform disorders. | |
| Jul 17, 2015 at 11:23 | comment | added | Jaeger Jay | La belle indifference represented an example of the use of denial as a means of defending against psychological stressors and not an indifference per se. | |
| Jul 17, 2015 at 11:02 | comment | added | Jaeger Jay | I'm a medical practitioner and I find your answer correct. | |
| Jul 17, 2015 at 9:27 | history | answered | Susan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |