It's a high-pitched blend of anxiety and hypochondria and it's clear that two World Series championships did not eradicate the affliction it simply had laid dormant.

WSJ: Jason Gay: Sick, But Healthier Than the Sox

The Web, of course, is a great enabler of hypochondria.

FORBES: Medical Tests

John Turner's life may have been saved by hypochondria.

FORBES: By the Numbers

As Jerome Littlefield, an aspiring doctor whose debilitating sympathetic hypochondria reduces him to menial labor at a sanatorium, Lewis is both a flustered klutz who tries too hard and a soft-spoken, painfully sincere Everymensch.

NEWYORKER: The Disorderly Orderly

French politicians play up to this national hypochondria.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Hypochondria can spread this way as well.

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In dozens of small patient trials staged over three decades, cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to be surprisingly effective in quelling an ever expanding array of mental maladies: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress syndrome, bulimia, hypochondria--even insomnia.

FORBES: Patient Fix Thyself