A woman believes that she is suffering from a serious stomach or intestinal disease because she feels full after eating and some foods don't agree with her. Repeated visits to doctors have indicated that she is in good health and has no evidence of disease. The woman is likely to receive a diagnosis of

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The woman's belief that she has a serious disease despite medical evidence to the contrary suggests hypochondriasis, which involves excessive worry and preoccupation with having a serious illness. Conversion disorder involves the presence of physical symptoms without a clear medical explanation, pain disorder involves chronic pain in the absence of a clear cause, and malingering involves the deliberate faking or exaggeration of symptoms for secondary gain. None of these diagnoses fit the presented scenario as well as hypochondriasis.

A Woman Believes That She Is Suffering from a Serious