Caroline Crampton on the History of Hypochondria…and Her Own Struggles with Health Anxiety
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 1:01.6 | Most of us have been there, frantically Googling health information late at night, worried |
| 1:06.0 | about a mysterious ache or rash. |
| 1:08.6 | But when does health anxiety cross the line and become a problem on its own? |
| 1:13.1 | Writer Caroline Crampton tackles that question in her book, A Body Made of Glass, which looks at |
| 1:18.3 | the cultural history of hypochondria, from ancient Egypt to TikTok, and it examines her own experience |
| 1:24.1 | with chronic health anxiety after recovering from cancer. |
| 1:28.0 | Have you ever thought you had hypochondria? |
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| 1:32.5 | Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. After Caroline Crampton recovered from Hodgkin's lymphoma, |
| 1:51.9 | she was told she was cancer-free. But I am not free, she writes in her book, a body made of glass, |
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