A person who is preoccupied with every sensation of their body, worries excessively about getting sick, and continuously goes to doctors who never find anything physically wrong with them is likely to be diagnosed with __________.

A. illness anxiety disorder
B. conversion disorder
C. somatization disorder
D. psychophysiological disorder


Answer: A

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