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As the article notes, hypochondria is not an officially designated term. Historically a great many diseases that medical research had not understood, have been
by jph00 1y ago
As the article notes, hypochondria is not an officially designated term.
Historically a great many diseases that medical research had not understood, have been widely assumed to be imaginary.
For instance: “fakers disease” which you’ll now know by its medical term: “multiple sclerosis”.
- stavros 1y agoYeah but Faker's Disease was called that because it was first described by John William Faker.
- IsTom 1y agoThere's no hits for this in google or wikipedia.
- stavros 1y agoNeither are there any for "faker's disease", so I'm starting to suspect we both made things up.
- signalToNose 1y agoMust be a burden to have a family name that also is a disease, like Alzheimer.
- stavros 1y agoOne can only imagine what James Jonathan Multiple Sclerosis must have felt.