The anticipated need to develop new therapy services for ‘PTSD’ post-traumatic stress disorder, for suicide prevention and for prolonged grief, have been the topic for much in the media.

But there is something missing and an area that is the talking point of at least one consultation per week in my clinic “Covid-19 Anxiety”.

Anxiety as a result of external future based theoretical events is a relatively new concept and roots from the condition called hypochondriasis (we all know at least one person who we would call a hypochondriac… always having the latest trending symptoms – usually to gain significance or attention via negative means).

The reason why Colvid-19 Anxiety has been separately identified is that, it is primarily an anxious disorder, whereas hypochondriasis covers a much larger range, including significant depression and even psychotic symptoms such as delusions.

People with pathological anxiety have excessive fear of getting, or having, a disease, however as we all know in the health professions, anxiety itself leads to psychological and bodily symptoms that, are on many occasions misinterpreted as evidence of organic illness. Something I covered in the previous articles.

https://benjaminbonetti.co.uk/blogs/news/covid-19-anxiety-how-to-cope-with-covid-19-anxiety

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