23 Signs You're An Incurable Hypochondriac

    What's that tickle in your throat?

    Katie Heaney
    by Katie Heaney

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. Half your texts to family members are a version of this.

    2. Your family has staged an intervention between you and WebMD.

    3. You don't REALLY want to be dying, but also sort of do, just to prove a point.

    4. Your significant other is Airborne.

    5. If something's going around, it's all you can talk about.

    6. A bruise, to you, is never JUST a bruise.

    7. Your friends call you the "Boy/Girl Who Cried [Disease of the Month]."

    8. You Instagram your cold remedies the way other people Instagram their breakfasts.

    9. All you see are the ones that say "CRITICAL."

    10. You check your heart rate constantly.

    11. The fancier-sounding the diagnosis, the surer you are that you have it.

    12. You're like, "Yeah, right."

    13. You've googled "eyelid twitching" more than once.

    14. This is your idea of a beach read.

    15. You want to hang this chart as artwork in your home.

    16. This is what you give your friends when they're sick.

    17. Your friends and coworkers come to you when they're sick because they know you've always got the goods on hand.

    18. Your search history looks like the search history of someone looking up improbably elaborate ways to kill someone.

    19. Your party favors.

    20. This is your favorite aisle.

    21. You would believe every one.

    22. You're addicted to shows that just make everything worse.

    23. Yes. The answer is yes.