I found this on Daily Mail, Have a read...Confessions of a Very modern Hypochondriac!

[anxietyoverload]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ogle-itis.html

[Hypo]

I really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting it.

And it also made me cry a little too. This really is no way to live.

[yenool]

Interesting read and nice that it is written by a man too - the stereotype being most hypochondriacs are women of certain age.

[anxietyoverload]

It is so sad, but its nice that he has written this. I often find this subject is some form of 'taboo' x

[Fishmanpa]

Sadly, the vast majority here could have written that :(

[Darren1]

I thought it was good until he told me his mother died of cancer and his father died of cancer 6 weeks after diagnosis. sent my ha into overdrive

[rebeccad]

Wow thanks daily mail we hypochondriacs are often laughed at but it really is so debilitating :(

[skippy66]

Ironically the Daily Mail is by far the worst paper/website for someone with health anxiety. Full of scaremongering health articles.

[almamatters]

I did enjoy reading this article but the part about his parents really scared me, but I suppose he was only trying to explain factors that have contributed to his hypochondria . I do agree about the Daily Mail , it is terrible for printing health scare stories and I will not read it.

[blackbroom]

I want to throw something at the commenter underneath who suggests that the author is wasting taxpayers' money, has an underlying need for attention and is treating it like "a light matter" (they obviously missed the bit about his parents' deaths being the trigger)

I wish people would understand that health anxiety is a debilitating illness, and that sufferers aren't choosing to spend hours in A & E on a whim or out of selfishness.