“I prefer the umbrella term hypochondria.”
Walk a mile in my shoes.
I have lab tests showing four “reactivated viruses” in my system because my ME/CFS has weakened my immune system so much that childhood and young adult viruses that I had contracted and beaten down earlier in my life into recesses in my body have “reactivated.”
I have to take 1500 mg of Valtrex every day to keep my reactivated mononucleosis (HHV-4) from getting out of control and reducing me to a demented state.
Believe me my self-insured Fortune 50 company didn’t pay out $1 million in total cost for me and my wife as my dependent under my corporate long-term disability plan over 16 years after I successfully settled with them out of court for hypochondria.
Nor does the Social Security Admin. pay out $billions every year for ME/CFS, which it does under a recognized code.
Geez, I already said on another post that not everybody is a hypochondriac. Some are. This is like when I post on a movie forum that young people don’t get into classic films, and some youngster goes on about how he’s into classic films.