Word: hypochondria
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...Gould -- not only because of his electrifying reinventions of Bach's Goldberg Variations, among other pieces, but also because of the strikingly eccentric artistic creation that was his life. Who could forget the singular genius who shuffled about on summer days swathed in mufflers and overcoats (because of his hypochondria), and in concerts sat himself down on a pygmy chair and proceeded to sigh, groan, sing and wave his hands about as he played? Who could resist the story of the monkish prodigy who burst onto the scene at 23 only to abandon concerts for good eight years later? When...
...particularly healthy either. More and more employees are complaining that they are beset during deskbound hours by a panoply of miseries, from stuffy heads and watery eyes to nosebleeds, headaches and that just-plain-lousy feeling. Doctors and employers have long tended to dismiss such distress as hypochondria, but no longer. Increasingly, the grousing is considered to signal a real problem: indoor air pollution, or, as it is widely known, sick-building syndrome. Says Eileen Claussen, an official of the Environmental Protection Agency: "Pollutants in the indoor environment can cause a serious health risk...
Like Kennedy, thousands of Americans believe they are victims of a stealthy epidemic that is draining their physical strength and mental energy. Initially, physicians attributed the mysterious affliction, which often strikes clusters of people, to a mixture of depression, hypochondria and mass hysteria. It has been called the yuppie disease -- because a disproportionate ) number of its victims have been young, white professionals -- chronic mononucleosis or, simply, fatigue syndrome. Hollywood is rumored to be plagued by the disease. Film Director Blake Edwards struggled with it for three years. "Your body starts to collapse," he says. "It was a matter of hell...
...Passage to India ("Too long"), and he is reading two books by fellow best-selling Italian Americans--Mario Puzo's The Sicilian and Leo Buscaglia's Loving Each Other. But in addition to doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, his main hobby seems to be hypochondria. After learning of an acquaintance's death not long ago, he shook his head and said gravely, "I've got to start guarding my health." In fact his health is under pretty tight security already. Among other medicinal regimens, he doses himself every night with Metamucil, a fiber laxative. He is a confessed...
...classmates, and could state, swim and canoe at least as well as any one of them, he was afraid to speak to girls he liked, forgot his speech in a debate, and failed to make the track team. At parties he felt ill at ease. The first signs of hypochondria seem to have appeared during his adolescence...