The life of a real hypochondriac.
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“For the past six years, Laura Anglim, 26, has been convinced she is going to die. “
I’ve got news for her. She is going to die. 100% probability. Not a damn thing anyone can do about it. Sure we can try to postpone the inevitable, scan your body with x-rays, poke scopes in various orifices, draw blood. But in the end, which for a 26 year old female is probably just shy of 60 years on average, she’s done for.
She just needs to redirect her obsessive compulsive thoughts to something more useful. In this cold and flu season compulsive handwashing could provide some useful health benefits
anonymous,
That’s great advice! Get the hyponchondriac to obsess about something more useful… I wonder why she never thought about that? And I’m sure that she will be very comforted to know, as you pointed out, that she will eventually die. You have such a profound understanding of the mentally ill that you must be a pscyhiatrist…
Not a psychiatrist, I’m Tom Cruise!
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