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hypochondriac

[hahy-puh-kon-dree-ak] / ˌhaɪ pəˈkɒn driˌæk /
NOUN
neurotic
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Historically when the medical community has treated women, it has treated them as hysterics and hypochondriacs.

From Washington Post

A young woman with a generally healthy lifestyle, “I totally get why a GP would dismiss my self-diagnosis of bowel cancer especially in a neurotic hypochondriac such as myself,” she wrote on her blog.

From New York Times

When it comes to my own health, I’m not a hypochondriac.

From The Verge

And I actually found him more interesting this season, because in Season 1, he was kind of a classically silly Austen character, this hypochondriac who just talked a lot and was self-involved.

From Salon

As a child, he was a hypochondriac, "a sickly little bookworm."

From Salon