hypochondria

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Recent Examples of hypochondria Illness Anxiety Disorder Colloquially, a constant concern for health is known as hypochondria. Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025 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 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
  • In real life, Anne was reported to have suffered from a degenerative illness for most of her life.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • So, lowering the risk of hospitalization and major illness for the pregnant person is another way in which the COVID-19 vaccine can lead to safer, healthier pregnancies and births.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, disease and human activity, such as pollution, have severely degraded Florida's reefs, according to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In the series, Marie, an ambitious young woman of minor nobility, learns that her lung disease is terminal.
    Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But for Apryl Shackelford, those anxieties have been replaced with opportunity.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Even your own anxiety may play a part.
    George Petras, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The idea of green sickness comes out of Renaissance medicine, which in turn took a page from Hippocrates’s rediscovered book On the Disease of Virgins.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 27 Sep. 2025
  • What does another entry into the canon of sickness writing have to offer readers?
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Hypochondria.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypochondria. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.

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