Word: hypochondria
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Unpacking my boxes from summer storage, I began to suspect that I was suffering from a severe case of mauvaise foi. Perhaps it was a symptom of the anxiety surrounding my recent 20th birthday or my more deep-seated tendency toward hypochondria, brought on by watching too many episodes of “Grey’s Anatomy.” Yet, as I unearthed heart-shaped perfume bottles, caked tubes of mascara, and back issues of Vogue, I felt as though I had violated some ill-defined feminist responsibility. A twinge of guilt, beyond the purely financial, accompanied...
What's wrong with him? Paranoia. Hypochondria. Body dysmorphia. Egomania. He's anorexic. Also a terrible overeater. He's a recovering alcoholic and an insomniac, but he made up for that by becoming a very serious drug addict. He's agoraphobic and argyle-phobic, which means he's afraid of argyle socks...
...complaints of an injured minority with a reputation for hypochondria are not as effective as the reprimand of unanmious condemnation. In order to adopt a more powerful rhetorical position, the HRC and its peers have to be willing to resist the temptation for didactic speeches about the power of words and school yard bullies...
...Torn between reasonable fear and hypochondria, safety and overprotection, parents struggle to raise their children with some semblance of normalcy-without driving themselves, their kids, their friends, and their communities crazy. Waiters roll their eyes when parents ask to view labels and school staff often resist accommodations. Parents whose kids dive into birthday cake with abandon and live on PB and J aren't necessarily sympathetic to what they call the peanut police. Even the most understanding moms aren't accustomed to the precautions involved in having an allergic child over for a playdate...
...approach. Exploring the role in rehearsal, Kline improvised without warning, flopping onto the floor when he was meant to sit, tearing pages from a book and pasting them onto Polonius' head with spit. Between scenes he would pounce on a piano or indulge what friends josh as chronic hypochondria by relaxing his back in a vibrating armchair, transported from his book-lined apartment in an Upper West Side brownstone. Kline and the orderly, meticulous director Liviu Ciulei clashed so often that Producer Papp joined in the final staging...