Caroline Crampton

absolutely obsessed with the idea that they were breakable and fragile because they were made of glass and that if anyone hugged them too hard or if they fell off anything or if they got jolted around on a horse, they would break into a million pieces. And that's sometimes I think what it feels like to have hypochondria is you feel incredibly fragile and breakable and

absolutely obsessed with the idea that they were breakable and fragile because they were made of glass and that if anyone hugged them too hard or if they fell off anything or if they got jolted around on a horse, they would break into a million pieces. And that's sometimes I think what it feels like to have hypochondria is you feel incredibly fragile and breakable and

absolutely obsessed with the idea that they were breakable and fragile because they were made of glass and that if anyone hugged them too hard or if they fell off anything or if they got jolted around on a horse, they would break into a million pieces. And that's sometimes I think what it feels like to have hypochondria is you feel incredibly fragile and breakable and

But to everyone else, you just look completely normal. And they might think that this is just all in your head and a delusion that you've got. So that's why I gave the book that title, because I felt it really encapsulated the feeling of what it's like to have hypochondria.

But to everyone else, you just look completely normal. And they might think that this is just all in your head and a delusion that you've got. So that's why I gave the book that title, because I felt it really encapsulated the feeling of what it's like to have hypochondria.

But to everyone else, you just look completely normal. And they might think that this is just all in your head and a delusion that you've got. So that's why I gave the book that title, because I felt it really encapsulated the feeling of what it's like to have hypochondria.

It does. And I would say largely it's been very positive. I'm not sure that I could recommend writing a book as a treatment to everyone with hypochondria, but it's certainly been good for me.

It does. And I would say largely it's been very positive. I'm not sure that I could recommend writing a book as a treatment to everyone with hypochondria, but it's certainly been good for me.

It does. And I would say largely it's been very positive. I'm not sure that I could recommend writing a book as a treatment to everyone with hypochondria, but it's certainly been good for me.

The actual process sort of day by day of especially writing the personal sections of the book was sometimes quite unpleasant, reliving memories and sorting through recollections and deciding what would be good in a book and what wouldn't be. I didn't find that very enjoyable. But

The actual process sort of day by day of especially writing the personal sections of the book was sometimes quite unpleasant, reliving memories and sorting through recollections and deciding what would be good in a book and what wouldn't be. I didn't find that very enjoyable. But

The actual process sort of day by day of especially writing the personal sections of the book was sometimes quite unpleasant, reliving memories and sorting through recollections and deciding what would be good in a book and what wouldn't be. I didn't find that very enjoyable. But

The overall process of putting it all down and then being able to send it out into the world, almost like it's a chapter that I'm closing and giving over to everyone else to have their thoughts about, that I think was mentally very helpful. And also just realising that I could talk about these things and nothing bad would happen to me. I think I had...

The overall process of putting it all down and then being able to send it out into the world, almost like it's a chapter that I'm closing and giving over to everyone else to have their thoughts about, that I think was mentally very helpful. And also just realising that I could talk about these things and nothing bad would happen to me. I think I had...

The overall process of putting it all down and then being able to send it out into the world, almost like it's a chapter that I'm closing and giving over to everyone else to have their thoughts about, that I think was mentally very helpful. And also just realising that I could talk about these things and nothing bad would happen to me. I think I had...

without realising it, I'd lived with this fear for a very long time that if I spoke about having cancer, having hypochondria, people would judge me, people would think less of me. And I was braced all the time, I think, for that reaction. And there's been absolutely none of it. People have been nothing but kind and interested and wanting to share their own stories and so on. So I think

without realising it, I'd lived with this fear for a very long time that if I spoke about having cancer, having hypochondria, people would judge me, people would think less of me. And I was braced all the time, I think, for that reaction. And there's been absolutely none of it. People have been nothing but kind and interested and wanting to share their own stories and so on. So I think

without realising it, I'd lived with this fear for a very long time that if I spoke about having cancer, having hypochondria, people would judge me, people would think less of me. And I was braced all the time, I think, for that reaction. And there's been absolutely none of it. People have been nothing but kind and interested and wanting to share their own stories and so on. So I think

That was a very good realization for me that I could do this and it could actually have a good outcome instead of a bad one was maybe the culmination of a lot of therapy of doing hard things to find out what the outcome is and then finding that actually they're not that bad after all.

That was a very good realization for me that I could do this and it could actually have a good outcome instead of a bad one was maybe the culmination of a lot of therapy of doing hard things to find out what the outcome is and then finding that actually they're not that bad after all.