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Saturday, June 21, 2008 12:00 AM

Sick in the head

I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.
By Jennifer Traig

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  • Friday, June 20, 2008 07:04 PM

    You sound like a really boring person

    Nobody can live for very long without bowel irregularities, rahes, allergies, bleeding gums, sore tendons, irregular heart beat, etc. etc, etc. You don't have a "Million things" wrong with you, just one: you obsess over every little symptom until that feeling rules your life. You may as well learn to deal with these symptoms and a thousand others the flesh is heir to. It's called "building character." You don't hear much about that anymore, probably because the drug companies can't bottle it and sell it.

    —vespula Read vespula's other letters

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