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"MOM!! I think I have a new freckle!!"screamed Liz." I think I have skin cancer!" Liz is suffering from a mental disorder called . With this type of disease people become obssessed about sickness and their health. These people convince themselves that they have an ....

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.... is also a way of agreeing to be helpless. In fact, is the perfect solution to this common predicament, for in being ill-either as a child,wife,husband, employee, or in-law- the vulnerable person simultaneously obtains the protection and attention he craves,excuses his excessive dependence, and binds his protector to him(who could leave someone who was seriously ill?). Psychiatrists today classify as one of a type of behaviors collectively known as the somatoform disorders. What these conditions have in common is that sufferers feel physical symptoms for which they seek medical attention in the absence of a detected organic disease or which are out ....