Question

Jalen reports that he is concerned that he has the flu because he has sneezed a few times in the past couple of days. The doctor finds no evidence for this diagnosis. Assuming Jalen is not fabricating these symptoms for personal gain and assuming that this is a long-standing pattern of behavior, Jalen might be diagnosed with ______ disorder.

Answer 1

Answer:

illness anxiety disorder

Explanation:

Illness anxiety or health anxiety is a disorder which is characterised when the person feels anxiety with the symptoms of some minor disease. The person with health anxiety feels that his body is showing the symptoms of some disease even when the body is normal and the symptoms are of normal flu.

In the given case, the person with the sneezing feels that the person has flu or may be affected by the flu in a few days. He is suffering from an illness anxiety disorder.

Thus, illness anxiety disorder is correct.