ICD-11 classes
06 Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders
Anxiety or fear-related disorders
6B23 — Hypochondriasis
6B23.1 — Hypochondriasis with poor to absent insight
ICD-11 6B23.1 — Hypochondriasis with poor to absent insight
All definitional requirements of hypochondriasis are met. Most or all of the time, the individual is convinced that the disorder-specific beliefs are true and cannot accept an alternative explanation for their experience. The lack of insight exhibited by the individual does not vary markedly as a function of anxiety level.
The diagnosis includes nothing.
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.
The diagnosis is coded elsewhere:
- Hypochondriasis #5600