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hypochondriac

[hahy-puh-kon-dree-ak] / ˌhaɪ pəˈkɒn driˌæk /
NOUN
neurotic
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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

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

American business leaders sometimes talk about workforce productivity trends the same strained way you might expect a perfectly healthy hypochondriac to check his body temperature three times a day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

A young woman with a generally healthy lifestyle, “I totally get why a GP would dismiss my self-diagnosis of bowel cancer especially in a neurotic hypochondriac such as myself,” she wrote on her blog.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022

He was also—perhaps as a result—something of a hypochondriac.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

Those who suffer from the disorder are usually thought of as hypochondriacs or germaphobes.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2020

In the Senate hearings on the attacks, Sen. Rubio asked Rosenfarb whether he thought this was, “a case of mass hysteria, that a bunch of people are just being hypochondriacs and making it up?”

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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