Word: hard-to-detect
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...occur to John X that he was emotionally ill. It was his stomach, he said. A battery of doctors found nothing wrong there. Then John X "knew" the worst: he was going to die soon, probably from one of those hard-to-detect cancers of the stomach. Forced to give up some meetings, he spent the evenings at home talking to his wife about his life insurance. He slept poorly and lost weight. He gave up hope. Late one night the tension in his mind became so great that John X threatened to end his life, but his wife talked...