Jennifer Traig is the author of "Devil in the Details: Memoir of an Obsessive Girlhood" and the upcoming memoir "Well Enough Alone," from which this story is excerpted.

Jennifer Traig's Salon stories

Saturday, Jun 21, 2008 04:30 PDT

Sick in the head

I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.

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