hypochondriac

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

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

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

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

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