Sentences with phrase «as hypochondriacs»

Its sufferers were once dismissed as hypochondriacs, but there's growing biological evidence to explain toxicant - induced loss of tolerance (TILT).

Apologists for Newman have sometimes portrayed Faber as a hypochondriac neurotic, scheming to undermine Newman's proper authority while frequently at odds with his owncommunity.

Samuel Richardson, the 18th - century writer who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the modern novel, complained so much about ill health that his doctor regarded him as a hypochondriac.

You know, my entire life, my test results have unfailingly come back absolutely normal which is why I have been pegged as a hypochondriac and you know, told that it's psychosomatic, it's all stress --

(I had wondered whether Todd Haynes, who made the movie in 1995, was spoofing Carol White as a hypochondriac of sympathizing with her.

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In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

I just see lactivists insisting that low supply is rare as a way of saying, «So stop being a hypochondriac and nurse your baby.»

Of course, as parents we don't want to freak out about every little thing turning our children into hypochondriacs.

For years they were dismissed as «sleep hypochondriacs».

«They write me off as a flake or a hypochondriac when this illness can really take a huge toll on your body,» she said.

However, if you go to a conventional physician complaining of a leaky gut, your concerns are likely to be dismissed and more often than not, you will leave with a recommendation to spend less time on the internet — or even worse, your symptoms will be branded psychosomatic and your doctor will label you a hypochondriac, as almost half of autoimmune patients experience in the subclinical stages of their disease (AARDA, 2017).

I have seen such patients labelled as «hypochondriac» or as having irritable bowel syndrome (a very common diagnosis for the gluten intolerant patient).

Do NOT let your doctor blow you off as being a hypochondriac who thinks she has the latest «fad» disease!

This year, Julie will be auctioning off limited edition Blue - Eyed Girl Lacquers plus donations from other indie brands such as Alter Ego, Northern Star Polish, Monster Polish, Ever After, Superficially Colorful, Girly Bits, Paint Box Polish, The Polish Bar, Chaos & Crocodiles, SuperChic Lacquer and Hypochondriac Polish.

Described — whatever this means — as a «25 - hour - a-day hypochondriac» by Warner copywriters, Jack is a Safeway manager plagued by insecurities.

A hypochondriac working as an airport baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.

At its center is the «bastard» of the title, Asya, a nineteen - year - old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya's mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster.

But his delusions during his Cotard's episode, which happened decades later, were not about syphilis but HIV / AIDS — which had supplanted syphilis in the broader culture as «God's punishment for sins of the flesh» (syphilis almost never shows up anymore during hypochondriac delusions in Cotard's).

As a diagnosed hypochondriac, you could say he has a PhD in it.

Placing the challenges of form and content at the center of his production, Seçkin Pirim describes Hypochondriac as «an exhibition that overlaps with my life, it lays my life bare.

Certain things such as New Age practices and kitsch bring the hypochondriac comfort.