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Book Synopsis The Hypochondriac's Handbook by : John M. Naish
Download or read book The Hypochondriac's Handbook written by John M. Naish and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HYPOCHONDRIAC'S HANDBOOK is a treasure trove of wild, daft, strange, scary -- and hitherto obscure -- medical research. This is a snappy and amusing guide to over 250 fascinating conditions from the dark corners of medical journalism, compiled by THE TIMES' Health Features Writer.
Book Synopsis The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have by : Dennis DiClaudio
Download or read book The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have written by Dennis DiClaudio and published by becker&mayer! books ISBN. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypochondriacs can now fret appropriately with this humorous pocket guide to more than 40 disgusting, horrible diseases. All entries include symptoms, a diagnosis guide, treatment suggestions, a prognosis, and—if you are not yet infected—prevention tips. Do you suffer from insomnia? Not good…soon your whole body might attack your brain. Are you bothered by a persistent fever and swelling? Beware…maggots are likely crawling beneath your skin. Have you noticed skin tenderness and discoloration? Yikes…a small horn is probably going to sprout from your head. Because it's ultra-portable, you can (and probably should) have The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have with you at all times so at the slightest onset of an unmistakably fatal-feeling itchy rash, you can simply whip out your trusty guide, conveniently diagnose yourself, and then let the worrying begin.
Book Synopsis The Hypochondriac's Handbook by : Ian Landau
Download or read book The Hypochondriac's Handbook written by Ian Landau and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Got the sniffles? Probably flesh-eating fungus in your respiratory system. You need this...
Book Synopsis The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have by : Dennis DiClaudio
Download or read book The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have written by Dennis DiClaudio and published by becker&mayer! Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypochondriacs can now fret appropriately and factually with this pocket guide to more than 40 disgusting, horrible diseases. All entries include symptoms, a diagnosis guide, treatment suggestions, a prognosis, and—if you are not yet infected—prevention tips. Do you suffer from insomnia? Not good…soon your whole body might attack your brain. Are you bothered by a persistent fever and swelling? Beware…maggots are likely crawling beneath your skin. Have you noticed skin tenderness and discoloration? Yikes…a small horn is probably going to sprout from your head. Because it's ultra-portable, you can (and probably should) have The Hypochondriac's Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have with you at all times so at the slightest onset of an unmistakably fatal-feeling itchy rash, you can simply whip out your trusty guide, conveniently diagnose yourself, and then let the worrying begin.
Book Synopsis The Hypochondriac's Handbook by : Wendy Marston
Download or read book The Hypochondriac's Handbook written by Wendy Marston and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous guide to understanding all that can affect your well-being, from germs to the healthcare industry. Feeling good? Are you sure? This hilarious guide—a sequel to the bestselling Paranoid’s Pocket Guide—is guaranteed to make you wonder. With hundreds of symptoms to watch for and in-depth information on the latest germ mutations, this compendium offers compelling proof that there is always something to worry about, even if you seem to be in perfect shape. A must-have for today’s health-conscious individual, it also reveals worrisome facts about doctors and insurance companies. It’s packed with black-and-white photos documenting everyday items that can menace your health—often seemingly “harmless” items such as a pencil or a water fountain. Fortunately, this book will make you laugh, which releases endorphins and promotes health—for the moment. For soundness of body and mind, read The Hypochondriac’s Handbook. Better safe than sorry!
Book Synopsis The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life and Death by : Gene Weingarten
Download or read book The Hypochondriac's Guide to Life and Death written by Gene Weingarten and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly original, laugh-out-loud funny, and ultimately poignant exploration of hypochondria is offered by someone who inadvertently discovered the cure for all imaginary illnesses that plague the hypochondriac mind.
Book Synopsis Things That Might Kill You by : Knock Knock
Download or read book Things That Might Kill You written by Knock Knock and published by . This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hypochondriacs have long had to satisfy their needs for self-diagnosis with medical reference materials written for the masses, but this revolutionary book is dedicated entirely to the hypochondriac's unique perspective on health. The world's worst maladies, conveniently organized by symptom (real or imagined), will ignite even the mildest hypochondriac's fantasy life. We're all going to die of something—why not choose an ailment that's rare and hard to pronounce?
Book Synopsis The Hypochondriac's Handbook by : Ian Landau
Download or read book The Hypochondriac's Handbook written by Ian Landau and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sure, everyone gets sick sometimes, but do you realize that plenty of those folks also die slow, unpleasant deaths from diseases that stumped even the experts at top-notch (still privately run) hospitals? That’s right: There are plenty of illnesses that even physicians have never heard about. Nodding Disease, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, and Cutaneous Horn (yes, you grow a horn) are all featured here in pithy, energetic entries. You won’t have to worry about socialized medicine if you have this book—even if your doc could see you within a month, you might die due to his ignorance. Lucky for you and your loved ones, Ian Landau (who has no medical training but is a hell of a researcher) includes: Descriptions of each disease Background and history How to diagnose yourself and others Suggested treatments Prevention methods The book is not for the faint of heart, as it probably could cause cardiac arrest. (And you ain’t coming back from that without Ian’s help.)
Book Synopsis The Hypochondriacs by : Brian Dillon
Download or read book The Hypochondriacs written by Brian Dillon and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Brontë found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified by disease and by the idea of disease. Glenn Gould claimed a friendly pat on his shoulder had destroyed his ability to play piano. And we all know someone who has trawled the Internet in solitude, seeking to pinpoint the source of his or her fantastical symptoms. The Hypochondriacs is a book about fear and hope, illness and imagination, despair and creativity. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill. And, in an intimate investigation of those lives, it shows how the mind can make a prison of the body by distorting our sense of ourselves as physical beings. Through witty, entertaining, and often moving examinations of the lives of these eminent hypochondriacs—James Boswell, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol—Brian Dillon brilliantly unravels the tortuous connections between real and imagined illness, irrational fear and rational concern, the mind's aches and the body's ideas.
Book Synopsis Treating Health Anxiety by : Steven Taylor
Download or read book Treating Health Anxiety written by Steven Taylor and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2004-02-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in current theory and treatment research, this highly practical book presents a comprehensive framework for assessing and treating health anxiety, including full-blown and milder (subclinical) forms of hypochondriasis. The current state of knowledge about these prevalent and costly problems is reviewed, and assessment methods and empirically supported treatments described. Clear, step-by-step recommendations are provided for engaging patients or clients, implementing carefully planned cognitive and behavioral interventions, and troubleshooting potential pitfalls. Important advances in pharmacotherapy for persons with health anxiety disorders are also discussed. Enhancing the utility of this clinician- and student-friendly resource are numerous case examples and sample dialogues, quick-reference tables and boxed material, and over 20 reproducible handouts and assessment forms.
Book Synopsis A Condition of Doubt by : Catherine Belling
Download or read book A Condition of Doubt written by Catherine Belling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title seeks to change the way we think about hypochondria and to use hypochondria to sharpen our thinking about health care. The book's four parts examine hypochondria as a condition of biology; of medicine; of culture; and of narrative.
Book Synopsis The Hypochondriac's Handbook by : Lee Schreiner
Download or read book The Hypochondriac's Handbook written by Lee Schreiner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness by : Sarah Ramey
Download or read book The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness written by Sarah Ramey and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The darkly funny memoir of Sarah Ramey’s years-long battle with a mysterious illness that doctors thought was all in her head—but wasn’t. In her harrowing, darkly funny, and unforgettable memoir, Sarah Ramey recounts the decade-long saga of how a seemingly minor illness in her senior year of college turned into a prolonged and elusive condition that destroyed her health but that doctors couldn't diagnose or treat. Worse, as they failed to cure her, they hinted that her devastating symptoms were psychological. The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a memoir with a mission: to help the millions of (mostly) women who suffer from unnamed or misunderstood conditions—autoimmune illnesses, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme disease, chronic pain, and many more. Ramey's pursuit of a diagnosis and cure for her own mysterious illness becomes a page-turning medical mystery that reveals a new understanding of today's chronic illnesses as ecological in nature, driven by modern changes to the basic foundations of health, from the quality of our sleep, diet, and social connections to the state of our microbiomes. Her book will open eyes, change lives, and, ultimately, change medicine. The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness is a revelation and an inspiration for millions of women whose legitimate health complaints are ignored.
Book Synopsis A Hypochondriac's Guide To Beating Cancer by : David Aizer
Download or read book A Hypochondriac's Guide To Beating Cancer written by David Aizer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, touching and hopeful memoir from national TV host, TEDx speaker and survivor of stage 3 melanoma, Dave Aizer.For over 20 years, Dave Aizer has hosted TV shows for Nickelodeon, CBS, The CW, Fox Sports and more. He's interviewed countless celebrities and hosted morning shows, game shows, red carpets and sporting events. Although Dave has no problem under the bright lights, the bright sun turned out to be a huge problem for him, as it gave Dave advanced melanoma. Dave's battle with this aggressive cancer was made much worse by his tendency to be a raging hypochondriac. In A Hypochondriac's Guide To Beating Cancer Dave shares his numerous neurotic meltdowns during his melanoma journey. Every symptom became, in his mind, the cancer ravaging his body, no matter what the CAT scans, blood work and his team of doctors said. A harmless cough had to be lung cancer, his foot falling asleep clearly was a spinal tumor, the little cyst on his forehead was undoubtedly bone cancer, and that imaginary smell could only be a brain tumor! None of those crises, nor the countless other ones he experienced, turned out to be anything of consequence. But that didn't stop Dave from obsessing about all of them.Dave's goal with this book is to make you laugh (even if it's at his expense), but also to give you hope and let you know it's okay to be scared, angry and irrational if you're going through a crisis. Think of this as your "permission slip" book. Your guide to own your feelings, whatever they may be. Please know that all the physical, mental and emotional pain Dave experienced led him to find purpose and gratitude, a message he hopes resonates with you. A Hypochondriac's Guide To Beating Cancer will make you laugh, make you cry and probably make you call your doctor. But after reading it you'll believe that if Dave can make it through his battle, you can make it through yours as well!
Download or read book Baggage written by Jeremy Hance and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist’s eco-adventures across the globe with his three traveling companions: his fiancée, his OCD, and his chronic anxiety—a hilarious, wild jaunt that will inspire travelers, environmentalists, and anyone with mental illness. Most travel narratives are written by superb travelers: people who crave adventure, laugh in the face of danger, and rapidly integrate into foreign cultures. But what about someone who is paranoid about traveler’s diarrhea, incapable of speaking a foreign tongue, and hates not only flying but driving, cycling, motor-biking, and sometimes walking in the full sun? In Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac, award-winning writer Jeremy Hance chronicles his hilarious and inspiring adventures as he reconciles his traveling career as an environmental journalist with his severe OCD and anxiety. At the age of twenty-six—after months of visiting doctors, convinced he was dying from whatever disease his brain dreamed up the night before—Hance was diagnosed with OCD. The good news was that he wasn’t dying; the bad news was that OCD made him a really bad traveler—sometimes just making it to baggage claim was a win. Yet Hance hauls his baggage from the airport and beyond. He takes readers on an armchair trek to some of the most remote corners of the world, from Kenya, where hippos clip the grass and baboons steal film, to Borneo, where macaques raid balconies and the last male Bornean rhino sings, to Guyana, where bats dive-bomb his head as he eats dinner with his partner and flesh-eating ants hide in their pants and their drunk guide leaves them stranded in the rainforest canopy. As he and his partner soldier through the highs and the lows—of altitudes and their relationship—Hance discovers the importance of resilience, the many ways to manage (or not!) mental illness when in stressful situations, how nature can improve your mental health, and why it is so important to push yourself to live a life packed with experiences, even if you struggle daily with a mental health issue.
Book Synopsis Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety by : Vladan Starcevic
Download or read book Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety written by Vladan Starcevic and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the recently updated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the diagnostic concept of hypochondriasis was eliminated and replaced by somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder. Hypochondriasis and Health Anxiety: A Guide for Clinicians, edited by Vladan Starcevic and Russell Noyes and written by prominent clinicians and researchers in the field, addresses current issues in recognizing, understanding, and treating hypochondriasis. Using a pragmatic approach, it offers a wealth of clinically useful information. The book also provides a critical review of the underlying conceptual and treatment issues, addressing varying perspectives and synthesizing the current research. Specific topics the text covers include: clinical manifestations, diagnostic and conceptual issues, classification, relationships with other disorders, assessment, epidemiology, economic aspects, course, outcome and treatment. Additionally, the book discusses patient-physician relationship in the context of hypochondriasis and health anxiety and presents cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal and psychodynamic models and treatments. The authors also address the neurobiological underpinnings of hypochondriasis and health anxiety and pharmacological treatment approaches. Based on the extensive clinical experience of its authors, there are numerous case illustrations and practical examples of how to assess, understand and manage individuals presenting with disease preoccupations, health anxiety and/or beliefs that they are seriously ill. It approaches its subject from various perspectives and is a work of integration and critical thinking about an area often shrouded in controversy.
Book Synopsis The Invisible Kingdom by : Meghan O'Rourke
Download or read book The Invisible Kingdom written by Meghan O'Rourke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue “Remarkable.” –Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review "At once a rigorous work of scholarship and a radical act of empathy.”—Esquire "A ray of light into those isolated cocoons of darkness that, at one time or another, may afflict us all.” —The Wall Street Journal "Essential."—The Boston Globe A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. Renowned writer Meghan O’Rourke delivers a revelatory investigation into this elusive category of “invisible” illness that encompasses autoimmune diseases, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, and now long COVID, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier. Drawing on her own medical experiences as well as a decade of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, O’Rourke traces the history of Western definitions of illness, and reveals how inherited ideas of cause, diagnosis, and treatment have led us to ignore a host of hard-to-understand medical conditions, ones that resist easy description or simple cures. And as America faces this health crisis of extraordinary proportions, the populations most likely to be neglected by our institutions include women, the working class, and people of color. Blending lyricism and erudition, candor and empathy, O’Rourke brings together her deep and disparate talents and roles as critic, journalist, poet, teacher, and patient, synthesizing the personal and universal into one monumental project arguing for a seismic shift in our approach to disease. The Invisible Kingdom offers hope for the sick, solace and insight for their loved ones, and a radical new understanding of our bodies and our health.
