Pierre longer suffered moments of despair,
hypochondria, and disgust with life, but the malady that had formerly found expression in such acute attacks was driven inwards and never left him for a moment.
No wonder her spells THEN had power; but NOW, when my course was widening, my prospect brightening; when my affections had found a rest; when my desires, folding wings, weary with long flight, had just alighted on the very lap of fruition, and nestled there warm, content, under the caress of a soft hand--why did
hypochondria accost me now?
Blue devils,
hypochondria, and doleful dumps, went and hid themselves among the nooks and crannies of the rocks.
This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable condition, verging on
hypochondria. He had become so completely absorbed in himself, and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting, not only his landlady, but anyone at all.
He had fallen asleep after a while, but not for long, and had awaked in a state of violent
hypochondria which had ended in his quarrel with Hippolyte, and the solemn cursing of Ptitsin's establishment generally.
He inherited a constitution of iron, great physical strength, and fearless self-assertiveness, but also
hypochondria (persistent melancholy), uncouthness of body and movement, and scrofula, which disfigured his face and greatly injured his eyesight.
At one point, they even thought she may have
hypochondria.
In the chapter In orizontul anxietatii / On the Anxiety, Ibraileanu is "possessed by
hypochondria" and "phobias", but also by an "insomnia" full of "troubles and anxiety", tormented by "sadness and sinister thoughts." This state of chronic anxiety and uncontrollable worries has a various etiology circumscribed not only to an unbridled inner fret, but also to a feverish anxiety amid a tired precipitation, sustained by a physical strain resulting from a sleepy and circadian arrhythmia, often associated with neurotic, stress, and somatoform disorders.
However, excessive worry about health, known as health anxiety or
hypochondria, can become highly problematic when a person becomes so worried about being ill or the prospect of getting ill that it starts to interfere with their everyday lives.
Last year in the Newcastle area 285 patients were prescribed treatment for
hypochondria and of this number 280 people started therapy.
Last year in theNewcastle area 285 patients were prescribed treatment for
hypochondria and of this number 280 people started therapy.
Some subjects explored include
hypochondria in Maria EdgeworthAEs Ennui, Southern Gothic and the queer male body, and the man of letters in Middlemarch.