symptom
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Hyperawareness is not a virtue, it’s a symptom of mental illness—ask your Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder friends about it sometime.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
The favors your husband did for them were probably just a symptom, not the cause.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
Anyone who has Googled a disturbing symptom and plunged down a rabbit hole of anxiety might fancifully imagine that hypochondria is an internet-spawned phenomenon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Dr Schnack says if you have a symptom that is "new, concerning or doesn't go away", it is "responsible health behaviour" to check the NHS website.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Vincent looks back on the time when he focused on religion so much—too much—and sees his zeal as a symptom of his melancholic misery.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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Prof Peter Johnson, NHS England's national clinical director for cancer, said detecting abdomen cancer early was "notoriously difficult" because symptoms can easily be mistaken for other less serious conditions.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Treatments such as chemotherapy, ovarian suppression and endocrine therapies can trigger an early extreme complex menopause or cause menopause-like symptoms, including hot flushes, sleep problems, joint pain, fatigue, low mood and changes to sexual health.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
After dozens of tests and MRIs, doctors linked Dave’s symptoms to a recalled presurgery drug, but the cause was never proven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Because exposure may have occurred years before symptoms appeared, understanding the potential long-term effects of chlorpyrifos is particularly important.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
Gertie is now certain that she has leprosy, and there is no medicine to ease her symptoms.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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