How do people with hypochondriasis typically relate to physicians?
What will be an ideal response?
They repeatedly visit physicians seeking medical advice, but their concerns that they have
a dread illness are not reduced when the doctors find nothing wrong. In fact, they often are
disappointed that no physical problem has been found.
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One difference between early- and late-onset alcoholics is that:
a. Children of late-onset alcoholics were likely to become alcoholics only if reared in a home where alcohol was abused. b. Children of late-onset alcoholics were likely to become alcoholics regardless of whether alcohol was abused in the home. c. Children of early-onset alcoholics were likely to become alcoholics only if reared in a home where alcohol was abused. d. There is no difference in the likelihood of their children becoming alcoholics.