![]() Emotions and imagination become abscesses and aches in a sort of magical transmutation. Hypochondriacs can suffer real physical symptoms without any underlying disease. She has diagnosed herself with deep vein thrombosis, heart attacks and Lou Gehrig’s disease - to name a few. Once, she woke up with a horrific lip sore that she suspected she dreamed into being given that she didn’t have herpes. Her true illness, apparently, is hypochondria. Then hypochondria kicks in.īesides her real medical problems - OCD, eczema, irritable bowel syndrome - Traig suffers from a host of maladies for which medical tests can find no cause. ![]() Her latest book, “Well Enough Alone,” picks up where she left off, her obsessive-compulsive disorder mostly under control. ![]() By the end of “Devil in the Details,” Jennifer Traig’s 2004 memoir of her obsessive-compulsive childhood, she was liberated from the need to lather her hands raw, scrub surfaces clean of invisible contaminants and pray several hours a day. ![]()
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