John Niven Quotes

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.

I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it's always ridiculous. Like, 'My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?' 'I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?' 'Is eating a soup going to make me die?'

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

All the powers of imagination combine in hypochondria.

After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.

I think hypochondria always plays a part in the healthcare landscape.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

I take Wellbutrin because I'm afraid to go into stores. I'm afraid people are going to yell at me.

I learned how but I have a terrible paranoia and fear. I do not drive an automobile.

Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

I have a lot of health anxiety.

I had a sore throat for a long time and it scared me. I saw a lump in my throat and I was terrified. I wouldn't go to a doctor.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

I have a lot of fears that normal people have.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

I don't want to be in a position that could make me vomit, like air travel. I've purloined airsick bags and stuffed them everywhere, just in case I ever feel the need to throw up. I haven't vomited since 1977, but I think about it all the time. I recognize that it's irrational, but I'd rather jump out of a window than vomit.

All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.