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hypochondriac

[hahy-puh-kon-dree-ak] / ˌhaɪ pəˈkɒn driˌæk /
NOUN
neurotic
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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

Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 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

He was reputed to be a hypochondriac and a deeply paranoid, frustrated man.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri



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