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

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

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

I was feeling pretty lucky right then that JonPaul is a total hypochondriac who’s always worried that he’s coming down with something rare and dangerous.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2020

I'd read about these on the Paxil Database, a site for self-proclaimed Paxil victims, but I thought they were made up—there are so many hypochondriacs on the Web.

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2017

Like most hypochondriacs, he had an oddly soothing bedside manner.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt