Are Therapists for Health Anxiety Right for You?
You're Not a Hypochondriac. You're Exhausted.
That word — hypochondriac — does a lot of damage. It flattens a real, often debilitating experience into a personality flaw. It implies that the person experiencing it is being dramatic, irrational, or attention-seeking. And it almost always makes people less likely to ask for help, because who wants to be dismissed before they even get...