Later she heard that her virulent hypochondria had turned into real illness.
Some people with panic disorder may go for years without learning that they have a real, treatable illness.
Rubens confessed she was taking them for every real or imaginary illness.
Depression is a real illness, akin to other medical illnesses like diabetes.
But if hypochondriacs don't have a real physical illness, what is wrong with them?
Look for these signs to tell real illness from faking it.
Yet I feared that he might soon slip into a real illness.
"What makes us cough, gives the Adepts a real illness!"
It was during the Copland trip that he experienced the first real illness of his 52 years.
Imagination can also produce some symptoms of real illnesses.