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What is another word for hypochondriacs?

Pronunciation: [hˌa͡ɪpə͡ʊkˈɒndɹɪˌaks] (IPA)

Hypochondriacs are individuals who experience excessive anxiety or concern about their health, often worrying about illnesses that they do not have. Some synonyms for hypochondria include health anxiety, somatic symptom disorder, illness anxiety disorder, and medical phobia. Hypochondriacs may also be referred to as hypochondriacal, hypochondrial, or health-anxious individuals. These alternative terms emphasize the persistent and excessive nature of the condition, as well as the irrational fears that often accompany it. Whether referred to as hypochondria or health anxiety, this condition can severely impact an individual's quality of life and often requires professional intervention to manage the symptoms.
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hypochondriacs Here is a type we run across every day in business.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter
The poor are often the most exacting of hypochondriacs.
"The Mark Of Cain"
Andrew Lang
"It might affect me with the hypochondriacs.
"Thaddeus of Warsaw"
Jane Porter

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  • In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4H Clubthe hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
    Spiro Agnew
  • Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose — a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad — yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.
    Dinah Craik
  • Psychology is familiar with the “eternal victim,” who exploits this position for disguised aggressions. Also belonging to this category, in a broader sense, are those permanent losers as well as medical and political hypochondriacs who lament that conditions are so terrible that it is a great sacrifice on their part not to kill themselves or emigrate. On the German Left, not least of all under the influence of the sociologized schema of the victim, a certain type of renegade has emerged who feels that it is a dirty trick to have to live in this land without summer and without oppositional forces. Nobody can say that such a viewpoint does not know what it is talking about. Its mistake is that it remains blind to itself. For the accusation becomes bound to misery and magnifies it under the subterfuge of unsuspecting critical observations. With the obstinacy of a Sophist, in aggressive self-reification, many a “critical” consciousness refuses to become healthier than the sick whole.
    Peter Sloterdijk

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