COVID‐19 health anxiety – Tyrer – 2020 – World Psychiatry – Wiley

Much has been written about the mental health consequences of the COVID19 pandemic. The anticipated need to develop new services for posttraumatic stress disorder, for suicide prevention and for prolonged grief have filled many paragraphs of newspaper space, and these have been reinforced by weighty papers from experts across the medical disciplinese.g.,1. But there is something missing from these accounts health anxiety and this cannot be ignored.
It is perhaps easy to explain why. Health anxi…

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