All 5 Uses of
hypochondria
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an overstrained irritable condition, verging on hypochondria.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Why, I know one case in which a hypochondriac, a man of forty, cut the throat of a little boy of eight, because he couldn't endure the jokes he made every day at table!†
Chpt 3.2hypochondriac = someone who always worries about imaginary illnesses
- All that working upon a man half frantic with hypochondria, and with his morbid exceptional vanity!†
Chpt 3.2
- Simply because a poor student, unhinged by poverty and hypochondria, on the eve of a severe delirious illness (note that), suspicious, vain, proud, who has not seen a soul to speak to for six months, in rags and in boots without soles, has to face some wretched policemen and put up with their insolence; and the unexpected debt thrust under his nose, the I.O.U. presented by Tchebarov, the new paint, thirty degrees Reaumur and a stifling atmosphere, a crowd of people, the talk about the murder of a person where he had been just before, and all that on an empty stomach—he might well have a fainting fit!†
Chpt 3.6
- I only heard a queer story that Philip was a sort of hypochondriac, a sort of domestic philosopher, the servants used to say, 'he read himself silly,' and that he hanged himself partly on account of Mr. Svidrigailov's mockery of him and not his blows.†
Chpt 4.2hypochondriac = someone who always worries about imaginary illnesses
Definition:
a psychological disorder characterized by excessive worry about imaginary, personal illnesses