Hypochondria is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, a mental condition characterised by the persistent and unwarranted belief or fear that one has a serious illness. I, like a lot of other people today, frequently worry there is something wrong with me that medicine has yet to detect.
Studies now show that worrying about being ill can, in fact, make you ill. Ready access to the internet, too, makes us all instant experts in the most esoteric of complaints.
#health-anxiety #medical-information-online #covid-19-pandemic #hypochondria #modern-health-experiences
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