We know that relationships are important for wellbeing, for protection against & treatment of psychological disorders, and for improving mortality - see, for example, blog posts on this website such as "Strong relationships improve survival as...
Excessive health anxiety is associated with high levels of distress, disability and increased health care use. It is common. A recent study - "Health anxiety in Australia: prevalence, comorbidity, disability and service use" - reported "Health anxiety affects approximately 5.7% of the...
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains well over 22,500 abstracts. I also regularly...