Holding negative expectations about future health may affect symptom appraisal by making people more likely to 'contain' or side-line worrying bodily changes by failing to acknowledge them as symptoms (Andersen et al, 2010).
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Others worried about bodily changes due to the treatment, and that it could be challenging for a future child to have a parent that differed from other parents.
This is a particularly vivid worry for intransitive bodily sensations in general and for pain in particular, because they seem to impress upon us as if in having them we were literally confronted with phenomenal objects that cannot be part of the natural world order.
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There are at least five worries that may disqualify bodily experiences from being perceptual.
Arellano nevertheless worries that dealing with bodily fluids puts her at extra risk.
Since we're all one in our bodily functions, no single group need worry about being offended more than any other.
The death of someone close to her when she was a teenager led to a lingering worry of death and bodily decay, she said.
May these all be ways of freeing animals of our kind from bodily tension, stressful isolation, drive, or worry into potentially prolonged relaxation, security, intimacy, openness to experience, or release from cares?
Health anxiety (HA) represents fears and worries about illness, coupled with bodily preoccupations, in the absence of objective illness (American Psychiatric Association, 1994; Kellner, 1986; Warwick & Salkovskis, 1990).
