Comments on: "Don’t tell me hypochrondia is a joke" http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/dont-tell-me-hypochrondia-is-joke.html medical blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/dont-tell-me-hypochrondia-is-joke.html/comment-page-1#comment-71790 Anonymous Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/dont-tell-me-hypochrondia-is-a-joke.html#comment-71790 Not a psychiatrist, I'm Tom Cruise! Not a psychiatrist, I’m Tom Cruise!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/dont-tell-me-hypochrondia-is-joke.html/comment-page-1#comment-71685 Anonymous Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:02:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/dont-tell-me-hypochrondia-is-a-joke.html#comment-71685 anonymous, <br/><br/>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... 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…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/02/dont-tell-me-hypochrondia-is-joke.html/comment-page-1#comment-71684 Anonymous Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:10:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/02/dont-tell-me-hypochrondia-is-a-joke.html#comment-71684 "For the past six years, Laura Anglim, 26, has been convinced she is going to die. "<br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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 “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

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