英语四六级阅读练习：健康焦虑并非玩笑_大学英语写作

英语四六级阅读练习：健康焦虑并非玩笑

　　【今日阅读推荐】本篇阅读材料健康焦虑不是开玩笑它可能毁掉我们的生活选自《卫报》。如果大家觉得比较简单，就当作泛读材料了解了解，认识几个新单词或新表达方式也不错。如果大家觉得这些材料理解上有难度，不妨当做挑战自己的拔高训练，希望大家都有进步^^

　　The number of people who are wrongly convinced they are seriously ill is rising.

　　I was living with this constant fear that I would be dead in three months， says Mark. The 32-year-old from Manchester had a pain in his lungs and immediately suspected advanced lung cancer. It became， he says， an obsession。 His GP was certain it wasnt cancer， but Mark couldnt stop thinking about it. He returned to his doctor several times， eventually persuading him to arrange a scan at the hospital. This too showed he didnt have the disease. Eventually Mark realised what he was suffering from was not lung cancer， but health anxiety.

　　Catherine ONeill， services manager at the helpline charity Anxiety UK， says the disorder is one of the things we get most calls about. The common fears are HIV， cancer and illnesses at the more severe end of the spectrum. Quite often， we get people who nursed someone through cancer and they become preoccupied with the thought that they have the disease too， or it develops because they have heard or read about someone with the illness.