Tag: medicine

Medical doctors try to sound clinical about it, and refer to this emotional state as illness anxiety disorder or hypochondriasis, but almost everybody else still uses the term hypochondria.

It feels as if we stand at the mouth of a cave that has kept us safely hidden during dangerous times, worried about what happens if we leave it behind

What’s the difference between suffering from depression and feeling miserable?

There is a feeling of tightness in anxiety, anguish, angst, and anger, but the form of that tightness shifts from word to word in ways that are as telling as the differences between dull pain, sharp pain, throbbing pain, and nagging pain.