hy⋅po⋅chon⋅dri⋅a
–noun
1. Also, hy⋅po⋅chon⋅dri⋅a⋅sis [hahy-poh-kuhn-drahy-uh-sis] Show IPA . Psychiatry. an excessive preoccupation with one's health, usually focusing on some particular symptom, as cardiac or gastric problems.
2. excessive worry or talk about one's health.
Munchausen syndrome
–noun
a factitious disorder in which otherwise healthy individuals seek to hospitalize themselves with feigned or self-induced pathology in order to receive surgical or other medical treatment.
At least last time La Mere started going on about this shit I could escape to work. Now I'm stuck with it.
Fuck.
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zut alors, what is going on? is she having another "stroke"? will she have chest pain at the wedding?
oh god. I saw this and was too disturbed to call her tonight. its alarming how much she talks about the state of her health (which as far as I can tell is perfectly fine and none of the horrible things she expects to happen ever do).
it is all ok. i called in an epipen for her. as my fellow residents would say, she just needs to "chillax"
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