hypochondriac
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She’s this little hypochondriac, I mean, but it makes sense.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
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 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
“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
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
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
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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