hypochondriac
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Elena is a hypochondriac and an agoraphobe, and Winslet said that, from a political standpoint, her character “absolutely has moments of just making stuff up.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
Doctors “called me a hypochondriac and said it was just anxiety and depression,” said Hannah Powell, a 26-year-old Utah woman who went undiagnosed for five years.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
It was a diagnosis that made "complete sense" to the singer and reassured the self-confessed hypochondriac that he was not dying.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
He was reputed to be a hypochondriac and a deeply paranoid, frustrated man.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Were people who claimed that the world was making them sick just a bunch of hypochondriacs?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
No. I have a couple hypochondriacs in my house, so I let them deal with that.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2022
The condition is so unusual, patients are often misdiagnosed or dismissed as hypochondriacs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021
“People suffering from mass psychogenic illness are not hypochondriacs and they’re not all making it up,” says Bartholomew.
From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2018
Maybe I was one of those hypochondriacs, obsessing over Fig’s health.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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