Quotes About Hypochondria

When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.

Ich hatte gleich wieder geglaubt, den Verstand verloren zu haben! Meine Hypochondrie nahm langsam bedenkliche Ausmaße an - ich sollte vielleicht einmal einen guten Kopfdoktor konsultieren. Herrje!

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'

An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.

The scale of her belly and breasts was not unlike early fertility goddesses found in Greece around 6000 BC, except they did not wear polka-dot aprons. Did they suffer from hypochondria? Hysteria? Were they bold? Lame? Too full of the milk of human kindness?

My God, you're like a med student. You hear of a new disease and five minutes later either you or the kids have it.

It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed – it soothed him.

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

While he was at Lichfield, in the college vacation of the year 1729, he felt himself overwhelmed with an horrible hypochondria, with perpetual irritation, fretfulness, and impatience; and with a dejection, gloom, and despair, which made existence misery. From this dismal malady he never afterwards was perfectly relieved; and all his labours, and all his enjoyments, were but temporary interruptions of its baleful influence.

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

I was thinking the other day that hypochondria's a stepbrother to masochism,' said Hugo.

I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it's always ridiculous. Like, 'My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?' 'I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?' 'Is eating a soup going to make me die?'

Medical school had been a time for imaginary diseases and Martin had contracted almost all of them.

After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their physical condition.

The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

People can die of mere imagination.

Body and mind both unemployed, our being becomes a burthen, and every object about us loathsome, even the dearest. Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondria, and that a diseased body.

people can die of mere imagination

My leg hurts, I wonder if it's cancer? There's a bump. I'm starting to sweat. Stop sweating. I've got to stop sweating. Can she see it dripping down my forehead? She looked at my hair line. She thinks I'm bald.

I'm amazed this guy manages to get out of bed in the morning without working himself into a panic attack over the chance that he might trip on the bath mat and stab himself through the eye socket with his toothbrush and be left with a permanent twitch that'll ruin his chances of landing an airplane safely if the pilot has a heart attack and doom hundreds to a fiery death.

Like the saber-toothed tiger's fangs, or the Alpha Male's testosterone, there's just more Beta Male imagination than can really be put to good use. Consequently, a lot of Beta Males become hypochondriacs, neurotics, paranoids, or develop an addiction to porn or video games.