I was told yesterday that hypochondria was a disease, that somebody with an imaginary illness, is ill.
I had never considered that just believing in something nonexistent made you sick.
It is a belief in something that isn’t there, an imaginary idea, and the belief is what makes you ill.
In denial you refuse to acknowledge existence of something and being a hypochondriac you believe in something imaginary.
The two seem like kissing cousins, related in an odd way, where both are removed from what is truly going on, and both cases, it is a belief that keeps them ill.
Within a dysfunctional family we have relationship hypochondriacs (or the opposites), for they believe in something imaginary; believing things to be better than they truly are, and unable to see the illnesses that surround them.
The coorelation between the two is remarkable.
I am surprised I didn’t realize that just believing in something imaginary is in itself an illness.
While the hypochondriac is convinced things are worse than they are, a person in a dysfunctional relationship are convinced things are much better than they are.
I wish they had a name for the opposite of a hypochondriac. When I looked it up on Yahoo here is what I found.
“The opposite is a MAN! Most men will think nothing is wrong with them even if the tumor is growing out of their head!”
I guess the opposite is thinking nothing is wrong in the face of evidence to the contrary.
Both sides are caught in a belief that keeps them from seeing what is true, and that in itself is the illness.
Stuck in a belief that doesn’t exist in real life.
Living in a bubble of pretend.
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