Sentences with phrase «many hypochondriacs»

Hypochondriac male Angelenos are buying up supplements with names like «Manimal» and «High T» by the bucket load.

Let's be honest: the Internet has made slight hypochondriacs of us all.

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.

We are spiritual hypochondriacs, consumers of privatized religion, seekers of the salvation of our own souls and bodies.

So did the cardinals tell the hypochondriac pope to quit, or is he just mad they wouldn't give him a new embroidered tablecloth, and crown for Easter?

Like the hypochondriac who wanted «I told you so» inscribed on his tombstone, prophecy believers relished the sweet delight of knowing that someday their vision of the end,: and theirs alone, would be fulfilled.

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.

But from a hypochondriac who worries about having a heart attack on the freeway, and the inevitable cancer 24/7.

God's grace is my responsibility; and even then, at the end of my days — because I know how prone I am to love my disease, to like being sick, to enjoy being a spiritual hypochondriac — I must always remember that by my own decision I may refuse health.»

Despite her persistence, her parenting via fearmongering was one of the reasons turmeric didn't originally gain much traction in our household; was it really turmeric milk that prevented me from getting the flu for over a decade, or a hypochondriac's adherence to an annual flu shot schedule?

Ugh I've learned that lesson once before with an apple that ** maybecouldhavepossibly ** tasted off but I'm an admitted hypochondriac so I went for it.

(Hypochondriac much?)

Does this make me a hypochondriac?

Does the threat of being labeled a hypochondriac make people less likely to talk about their anxiety disorder?

Camping is the bane of every hypochondriac's existence.

Those baby kicks can cause discomfort or even pain in the hypochondriac quadrant or lower abdomen (especially if the bladder is full).

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.

I am a hypochondriac by nature and I've been convinced a couple of times a year that I'm dying of something — WebMD always convinces me I'm right — so it's nice to go to the doctor to have my fears assuaged.

I'm kind of a hypochondriac about things like this, but I felt something.»

Perpetually on call for a household of detail - oriented hypochondriacs; crushed by constant, whimsical, impossible demands.

It's enough to make anyone into a hypochondriac.

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

At the outset Siebert admits to being what physicians call a heart hypochondriac.

It was written by Robert Hooke, then a 30 - year - old hunchbacked, cantankerous, neurotic hypochondriac who was also a brilliant natural scientist, polymath and an original fellow of the society that published the book.

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.

Impoverished hypochondriacs, rejoice: When the test hits the market — in a couple of years, Rhodes hopes — it should cost just about $ 100 a pop.

Gödel retreated before controversy and twice suffered nervous collapses; he was, under the best of circumstances, a valetudinarian, and under the worst, a hypochondriac.

For years they were dismissed as «sleep hypochondriacs».

Wendy Marston is a freelance writer and editor and the author of The Hypochondriac's Handbook.

I felt like I couldnt really talk to anyone about it because I did nt want to sound like a hypochondriac.

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

[pagebreak] Campaign backlash — and skeptics who aren't convinced The epidemic of RLS propaganda has had a negative effect on many people, however, who assume the condition is merely an excuse to sell drugs and an enabler for hypochondriacs.

What made me a hypochondriac is that no reassuring mammogram, ultrasound, or MRI could ever convince me I wasnt dying.

«More than 40 % of women eventually diagnosed with a serious autoimmune disease have basically been told by a doctor that they re just too concerned with their health or they re a hypochondriac,» says Virginia Ladd, founder and executive director of the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA).

But I never considered these options, because, like so many hypochondriacs, I did nt realize I was one.

True hypochondriacs do nt just make up fake symptoms and imaginary pains in a bid for attention.

Therefore, you're a hypochondriac.»

I studied chemistry at the university so I have a secular approach: since the analyzes were correct I wanted to figure out if I was a hypochondriac.

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).

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 --

After years of digestive woes, I've recently been diagnosed with IBS - C (although, I am a self - diagnosed Hypochondriac... (isn't that an ironic statement), and I've convinced myself my digestive woes are far more severe than IBS).

I'm a hypochondriac but otherwise young, healthy, extremely physically active and have been following all of the advice you dispense long before I even knew who you were.

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!

I have been labeled a hypochondriac by many and had losses of relationships, been prescribed anti-depressants (that did absolutely nothing) by one doctor and told that there is nothing wrong with me by many others after having almost every test under the sun performed.

I'm not a hypochondriac but I do try to limit my exposure to and ingestion of man - made chemicals like sweeteners, flavoring, food dyes, pesticides, and so forth.

The Sun / South Node connection could look like the hypochondriac or the health nut who is into extreme sports.

I was prescribed anti-anxiety meds, I was offered a hysterectomy I was told that I was a hypochondriac.

I was feeling like a crazy, unstable hypochondriac until I started my own research.