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As the article notes, hypochondria is not an officially designated term.

Historically a great many diseases that medical research had not understood, have been widely assumed to be imaginary.

For instance: “fakers disease” which you’ll now know by its medical term: “multiple sclerosis”.

Yeah but Faker's Disease was called that because it was first described by John William Faker.

There's no hits for this in google or wikipedia.

Neither are there any for "faker's disease", so I'm starting to suspect we both made things up.

Must be a burden to have a family name that also is a disease, like Alzheimer.

One can only imagine what James Jonathan Multiple Sclerosis must have felt.