What's the name of this medical disorder.....?

I'm trying to do research on this medical disorder but I do not know what it's officially called to find any information on it.


The disorder:





People who actually think themselves sick, by believing they're sick.





A person who believes they're ill, even though they're really not ill, actually become ill by the belief that they are.





Not unlike a parent who tells their child every day that something is mentally wrong with them, that they're retarded and the child then ends up in special education classes and believes they are mentally retarded...





Although the last example is not exactly what I am trying to find information on it gives an example..





I want to know how to find out about people who actually make themselves sick just by thinking that they are... is there a name for this?





I was looking up Psychosomatic, but that's actually quite different, from my understanding that's worrying yourself into sickness, over whatever worry you have... very different.





Help?

What's the name of this medical disorder.....?
What you are describing is called Munchausen's Syndrome (making yourself ill); Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy is when you make someone else ill.
Reply:Hypochondriac
Reply:hypochondriac.





is that it?
Reply:don't know
Reply:Its called Hyprochondria, and the person, a hyprochondriac.





Here's some really good information on it, but you seem to already have a lot.





http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/featu...
Reply:It's not hypochondria - that's worrying about being sick, but it doesn't actually -make- you sick. You were spot on with psychosomatic: mental factors which directly translate into physical illnesses. Oh, and Munchausen's is the deliberate faking of illness for attention, which is of course, completely different!
Reply:Pychosick
Reply:Yes, there is a name for it. It's called being a "hypochondriac". (hypo con dree ack) would be the way you pronounce it.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochondri...