hypochondriacal

Lord Byron himself, when informed that such a one complained of being called hypochondriacal, replied somewhat to the following effect: "I can not conceive how a man in perfect good health can feel wounded by being told that he is hypochondriacal, since his face and his conduct refute the accusation.

Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836

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Leslie Goldman: The Baby Name Whisperer Leslie Goldman 2012

He also had a very demanding, hypochondriacal mother with whom he grew quite close after the early death of his father.

A Conversation with Martha Sandweiss about Passing Strange 2010

Many were confected in the salon of one Madame de Sablé, a hypochondriacal marquise with intellectual tastes, whose guests—Blaise Pascal among them—would propose observations on human behavior that others questioned, criticized and honed until they met with general approval.

Puncturing Our Pretensions Joseph Epstein 2011

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Leslie Goldman: The Baby Name Whisperer Leslie Goldman 2012

It includes all the morbidly anxious states not represented in other forms of insanity, and is characterized by uniform despondency with fear, various delusions of self-accusation, of persecution, and of a hypochondriacal nature…leading in the greater number of cases, after a prolonged course, to moderate mental deterioration emphasis in original.

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

His description of his hypochondriacal collapse during a "mega book tour" through Europe and America is agonizing.

Haunted And Confused 2010

However, this fear was secondary to a paranoid system at the heart of which was the hypochondriacal delusion that he was "mentally ill".

You don't have to always tell the truth or always lie about being mad to work here, but it helps amuchmoreexotic 2008

But then, I appeared to be -- compared to those around me at my table, or for that matter everyone else in the room according to what I witnessed in a furtive survey of the other guests -- slightly hypochondriacal about the idea of ingesting industrial strength soap and what looks, on TV anyway, like thick black tar.

Rachel Ben-Avi: Dinner at Tara 2010

But then, I appeared to be -- compared to those around me at my table, or for that matter everyone else in the room according to what I witnessed in a furtive survey of the other guests -- slightly hypochondriacal about the idea of ingesting industrial strength soap and what looks, on TV anyway, like thick black tar.

Rachel Ben-Avi: Dinner at Tara 2010