A medical issue is a problem if the patient recognises it as one. If a patient suffers from something that is not recognised as medical problem we call it hypochondria. Is there the concept of something we see as medical problem but the patient does not realise as one e.g. because they don’t know that their condition is not normal?
Terminology regarding missing symptom awareness depends on what is thought to be the cause. Anosognosia and other agnosias would be used for neurological disorders where self-monitoring is specifically impaired while denial, delusions and hallucinations would be used for psychiatric disorders. Denial could also be a psychiatric symptom concerning a somatic disorder. I’m not sure if other somatic fields than neurology have special terminology.
If a patient suffers from something that is not recognised as medical problem we call it hypochondria.
Not really. For example grief is not recognized as a medical problem, people suffer from it and we don’t call it hypochondria.
Hypochondria is excessive worry about having a serious illness.
ETA: I think that whatever we choose to call a medical problem largely depends on our values and mere diversion from the biological norm does not a medical problem make. So the hypothetical patient could also simply disagree with others about what constitutes a medical problem.
A medical issue is a problem if the patient recognises it as one. If a patient suffers from something that is not recognised as medical problem we call it hypochondria. Is there the concept of something we see as medical problem but the patient does not realise as one e.g. because they don’t know that their condition is not normal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%E2%80%93Babinski_syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosognosia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosodiaphoria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatoparaphrenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation
Terminology regarding missing symptom awareness depends on what is thought to be the cause. Anosognosia and other agnosias would be used for neurological disorders where self-monitoring is specifically impaired while denial, delusions and hallucinations would be used for psychiatric disorders. Denial could also be a psychiatric symptom concerning a somatic disorder. I’m not sure if other somatic fields than neurology have special terminology.
Not really. For example grief is not recognized as a medical problem, people suffer from it and we don’t call it hypochondria.
Hypochondria is excessive worry about having a serious illness.
ETA: I think that whatever we choose to call a medical problem largely depends on our values and mere diversion from the biological norm does not a medical problem make. So the hypothetical patient could also simply disagree with others about what constitutes a medical problem.
I think the standard terminology is “undiagnosed illness”.