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
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
He was also—perhaps as a result—something of a hypochondriac.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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
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
Those who suffer from the disorder are usually thought of as hypochondriacs or germaphobes.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2020
Like most hypochondriacs, he had an oddly soothing bedside manner.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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