hypochondria

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Recent Examples of hypochondria Changing the approach to identifying and treating hypochondria requires health care professionals to strike a challenging — but necessary — balance of thoroughly vetting their patients’ claims while remaining cautious of not overselling or recommending a battery of tests. Hal Rosenbluth, STAT, 17 June 2024 Referrals to mental health professionals who treat hypochondria with cognitive behavioral therapy or medications the Food and Drug Administration has approved for treating hypochondria will create a realistic approach to addressing and validating people living with hypochondria. Hal Rosenbluth, STAT, 17 June 2024 She’s got your backs, opening with the moment her own lifelong, free-range hypochondria probably began — when a sweet high school classmate suddenly died of Hodgkin’s disease. Joan Frank, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023 Early on, many doctors, predictably, dismissed these cases as the result of anxiety or hypochondria. Meghan O'Rourke, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2021 The former is a consequence of my hypochondria and its associated germophobia. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2011 Tindaro’s perfect pedigree as an eligible bachelor is undermined by his insufferable attitude, rampant hypochondria, and blunt disdain for women. Breanna Bell, Variety, 14 Dec. 2022 And Dostoyevsky, with the infernal reveler ejected, is relieved that second of his hemorrhoids, his gambling habit, his seizures, his fevers, his depression, his hypochondria, his appalling futuristic intuitions and obsessions. James Parker, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2021 To suggest otherwise is nothing short of political hypochondria. Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 12 Aug. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypochondria
Noun
  • Her face, framed by blond, braided pigtails, showed no sign of illness.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Additionally, millions of adults and children are still feeling the effects of their illness and have been diagnosed with long COVID.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Parkinson’s disease is a movement disorder affecting the nervous system that worsens over time, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Who among us has ever searched on Google for a possible diagnosis regarding some strange symptom, only to find every possible explanation—from the simplest to the rarest disease?
    Massimiliano Melis, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the film, Shear stars as Sam, a once-promising law student whose anxiety has slowly chipped away at his confidence in all areas of his life.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Qigong also was found helpful in treating arthritis, depression and anxiety, and hypertension in a May 2022 study published in the Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research.
    Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Hospitals were working through the logistical challenges of preparing for an onslaught of patients with a sickness doctors barely understood.
    Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Exposure joined hunger and sickness to complete the task of mass killing.
    Fintan O'Toole, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025

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“Hypochondria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypochondria. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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