Fortunate that it was so, otherwise a lunatic asylum, or a permanent state of what the doctors call hypochondriasis, might have followed. ❋ Unknown (1860)
While Harris Interactive refers to those who surf the web for medical or health-related information as "cyberchondriacs", this is not exactly correct as the portmanteau derives from hypochondriasis, which is a morbid obsession with imaginary physical ailments whereas the adults surveyed in the poll merely admitted to looking online for health information. ❋ Unknown (2010)
So she doesn't actually meet the official psychiatric definition of "hypochondriasis," in which a misinterpretation of symptoms leads to a preoccupation with having a serious illness that interferes with daily functions and lasts at least six months despite reassurances from a doctor. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Too much sex could cause not only vertigo and epilepsy but also “seminal weakness, impotence . . . pulmonary consumption, hypochondriasis, loss of memory . . . and death.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)
Note also the profound hypochondriasis and fear that they are being infected by a "cancer"--again, a plot presumably put together by the Jews. ❋ Dr. Sanity (2009)
True hypochondriasis can be a devastating illness but fortunately affects only about three percent of the population. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The least mature—or psychotic defenses include: denial, distortion, and delusional projection paranoia; the immature defenses are: fantasy, projection, hypochondriasis, passive-aggression and acting out. ❋ Dr. Sanity (2009)
He had a little spike in the hypochondriasis scale—but then, who didn't? ❋ Jonathan Nasaw (2001)
In the Middle Ages, melancholia was also used to identify what today would be considered dysthymia, “minor” depressions, and hypochondriasis. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)
Reactivity of mood, hypochondriasis, significant features of anxiety, and premorbid anxious and fearful personality traits are cited as predictors of a poor response. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)
Patients with severe obsessive compulsive disorder or hypochondriasis, however, also can express ideas that are fixed, clearly false, and derived from what appears to be arbitrary or illogical thinking 464. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)
DSM-III notes several types of somatoform disorders: somatization disorder, conversion disorder, psychogenic pain disorder, and hypochondriasis or hypochondriacal neurosis. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)
The drives achieve partial, though disguised, expression through the symptoms of hysteria anxiety, hypochondriasis, phobic disorder, or obsessive-compulsive disorder. ❋ Judith Marks Mishne (1986)
They are equally serviceable in enlargements of the spleen and in many cases of hypochondriasis. ❋ C. B. Black (N/A)
Many years of auto-infection will exhibit such diseased symptoms as poor appetite, bad digestion, impoverished blood, emaciation, etc., accompanied by increased virulence of the catarrhal discharge of mucus, shreds, etc., and a mind and body sinking down to the morbid plane of hysteria, hypochondriasis (fear of illness) and neurasthenia (debility of the nervous system). ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Antoninus Musa cured Caesar Augustus of hypochondriasis by means of this plant. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
Ancient writers certainly attributed a host of virtues to this plant, especially for the cure of hypochondriasis, and insanity. ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)
Me: Ugh man I have a headache... I think I might have an aneurysm that's about to burst! Or maybe [brain cancer]!
Friend: All that is very unlikely, but what you do have is [hypochondriasis].
Me: NO, I'M TELLING YOU, I HAVE ALL THE SYMPTOMS OF AN ANEURYSM, AND MOST OF THE SYMPTOMS OF [BRAIN CANCER]!! ❋ Lefty Power 123 (2021)
