aand woke upided order. with horrible stomach ache. typical of people with hypochondriasis, maria beeved it was stomach cancer, not the pizza, that caused her pain. in examining the causal factors in maria's anxiety disorder, . shulman loed both at her present stressor-- her recent marriage-- and at her childhood. she was raised in a very tradional italian home, the favored anthe rst child, and her father, o was seen as a very perful figure in the family-- the mother was seen as very passivand ry weak. was someone who pampered her as an exemand catered her.ure, this all changed at adolescence, when the father became very withdrawn and very critical of his daughter, particularly of her developing sexuality, and what maria did was a massive rebellion. she became very sexlly active. she became involved as a rock groupie during the late sixties, doing very--extremely frightening activities, sneaking out of the house constantly, really opposing the father's iron hand. when mia decided to get married, her rebellion turn inward. she became hy