hypochondriac
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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
In a pre-pandemic world, even if flu cases were high, masking in public may have prompted a stranger to treat you like a mentally ill hypochondriac.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2023
The novel follows a young English woman who takes her hypochondriac mother to a clinic in Spain in search of a cure.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Aimee considered opting out by claiming low blood sugar from involuntary fasting, but she decided against starting out the year as the class hypochondriac.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Ms. Shiota’s work is not for the faint of heart, and hypochondriacs should steel themselves before seeing the show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
No. I have a couple hypochondriacs in my house, so I let them deal with that.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2022
Without proper context, the data could potentially be used to misdiagnose illnesses and turn people into hypochondriacs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
The condition is so unusual, patients are often misdiagnosed or dismissed as hypochondriacs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021
Like most hypochondriacs, he had an oddly soothing bedside manner.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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