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

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

American business leaders sometimes talk about workforce productivity trends the same strained way you might expect a perfectly healthy hypochondriac to check his body temperature three times a day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

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

Were people who claimed that the world was making them sick just a bunch of hypochondriacs?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

No. I have a couple hypochondriacs in my house, so I let them deal with that.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2022

The hopes of controlling pollen, or making it go away entirely, are “selling rich hypochondriacs a sense of control,” she told me.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2021

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

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

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt