Hypochondria

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He's my boyfriend....(who is neurologicly a whole alot like me, having both ADD and some AS symptoms) He is alot more "high functioning" than I am....he is able to drive and productively hyper-focus on stuff when he absolutely HAS to....He sorta stopped calling me a hypochondriac a while back, but he used to all the time.

As a kid, he was diagnosed as having a dependant personalitywhich he claimed was a sorta "made-up" disorder invented by the people who diagnosed him....
He sorta exhibits some of these traits...but in some ways it sorta adds to him as a person. (kinda hard to explain)...Other than he has loads of patience for all his crazy friends (myself included)


Anywhoo...There are lotsa natural skeptics out there...I have gotten it from past boyfriends too.

When I was in my preteens, a horrible thought built its nest in my head and didn’t want to leave it up until my middle teens: “what if one day I get really ill?”

I was almost never really scared of any potentially fatal disease (I was afraid of diseases themselves not death of them as such) but it looked in this way that for several weeks (or sometimes for months or even years in the extreme cases) I could torture myself with a thought about some illness only waiting to get me. Later the fear diminished because I found a new illness to worry about. What’s the funniest, there was never a real risk I could fall for this or that indeed. The illnesses I was so scared of in many cases were more or less rare, in the other cases I was doing my best to protect myself from them by not risking any potentially dangerous behaviors that could lead me to a hospital bed. Now some of those illnesses seem to have escaped my memory although there weren’t that many of them so that’s everything I remember now: rabies, accidental poisoning, HIV, any illness entailing a surgery, sudden blindness, suffocation.

Who is phuck?

I tend to imagine I have all sorts of diseases and this kind of thinking has been going on for years. Lately though, I have been trying very hard to stop it and give my self a well-needed break. Hypochondria runs in my family.

I think cosmiccat meant the "ph" to be a substitute for "f."

Actually I was making a joke in the style of Shakespeare's "Puck" - the mischievous and playful sprite. HydroPurity said he/she was healthy as "phuck" which I assumed was a clever and often used way of bypassing the program censor. I was pretending that I thought HydroPurity was referring to a person named Phuck. This made me think of all the neat little tricks that Puck plays.



Puck replies,

Thou speak'st aright;
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,
In very likeness of a roasted crab,
And when she drinks, against her lips I bob
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,
And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;
And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,
And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear
A merrier hour was never wasted there. (Act ii., Scene i.)

Ahh... well, in that case, very nice double entendre!

I'm reluctant ever to believe I'm ill, and I have trouble believing in other people's illnesses too. If something goes wrong with me I ignore it until it becomes unavoidable (toothache, for instance, until I can't sleep at night).

Oh yea, definitely. I'm always worried if I have a sore neck I have meningitis, getting rabies, or recently getting swine flu. Plenty others. I always keep hand sanitizer on my person.

I thought I was a hypochondriac once, but it turned out that it was all in my head.

Good one, Rocky.