Persistent/severe anxiety related to having or acquiring a serious illness along with the experience of significant and distressing somatic symptoms that disrupt one's life is called illness anxiety disorder.

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The condition described is more accurately referred to as somatic symptom disorder, whereas illness anxiety disorder involves anxiety about having a serious illness without significant somatic symptoms.

Persistent/severe Anxiety Related to Having or Acquiring a Serious Illness