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My girlfriend has gotten an extreme fear about being diagnosed with a deadly disease she is healthy. but cant think about anything else.
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Time for evaluation: Someone preoccupied with a single idea that begins to interfere with their life needs to be evaluated by a mental health professional.The idea may be rational in some respects, but the intensity of such fear often hides clinical depression or other issue. Help her begin the process with her doc. These often respond to treatment and the earlier the better.
Answered 4/2/2015
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