What concerns me is "devoting excessive time and energy to their symptoms or health concerns." Managing a complex health condition takes up a lot of time and energy and it would be really easy to view perfectly regular health monitoring and organising medical care to be "excessive" to someone else.
For example, when I go to see a specialist, I'm going to have at least 5 hours in the car. So I carefully plan my activities around that to make sure I have the time and energy to not just attend the appointment, but avoid being sick afterwards. When I had undiagnosed cancer, I went back to the doctors weekly - sometimes more often - trying to find what was wrong with me and it was only that persistence that got me a diagnosis. Was it "excessive"? Did I have "a high level of anxiety"? Yes, but only because the doctors in question were failing to do their jobs.
I think your velociraptor/asthma comparison isn't really comparing the situation, either, because one is imaginary. What about asthma vs car travel? Both are perfectly reasonable concerns that can then interfere with their lives, and I'm not really sure why they would require different treatments.
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For example, when I go to see a specialist, I'm going to have at least 5 hours in the car. So I carefully plan my activities around that to make sure I have the time and energy to not just attend the appointment, but avoid being sick afterwards. When I had undiagnosed cancer, I went back to the doctors weekly - sometimes more often - trying to find what was wrong with me and it was only that persistence that got me a diagnosis. Was it "excessive"? Did I have "a high level of anxiety"? Yes, but only because the doctors in question were failing to do their jobs.
I think your velociraptor/asthma comparison isn't really comparing the situation, either, because one is imaginary. What about asthma vs car travel? Both are perfectly reasonable concerns that can then interfere with their lives, and I'm not really sure why they would require different treatments.