Local community hospital in her neighborhood

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Maria is a 45-year old who presented herself to the emergency department at the local community hospital in her neighborhood. While the physician is examining her, she complains of the following symptoms: she has been having severe preoccupation with having a serious illness, her somatic symptoms are mild in intensity, she has a high level of anxiety about her health, she repeatedly checks her body of signs of illness, and this preoccupation of having an illness has persisted for at least 6 months. Maria tends to fit a clinical picture of someone who is suffering from the following illness: Illness Anxiety Disorder Generalized Anxiety Disorder Somatic Symptom Disorder Conversion Disorder Factitious Disorder.

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