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
“The mammoth tours of enormous venues. The expectations upon me. That’s surely anxiety-inducing for anybody, never mind a huge hypochondriac like myself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 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
As a child, he was a hypochondriac, "a sickly little bookworm."
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
He was reputed to be a hypochondriac and a deeply paranoid, frustrated man.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Women—myself included—too often worry about coming off as hypochondriacs about pain or symptoms, so we just bear it without pressing for answers when our gut tells us the doctors are wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 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
There’s the thief and his dolt of a sidekick, ironically nicknamed “the Brain”; a newly arrived doctor faced with a daily parade of petty hypochondriacs; and a barber who doubles as a D.I.Y. dentist.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
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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