Caroline Crampton

And that I found really interesting to think about when I was writing the book, that we have to believe, I think, otherwise no one would ever submit themselves to being injected with chemotherapy drugs if they didn't believe that this was the right thing to do and the best science available. If you had to confront the fact that, well, this is just the best we have today,

In a week, a month, a year from now, we might have a better version. I don't know we would ever be able to bring ourselves to do it. So it's this convenient fiction almost that we have to believe in in order to go through with any of it.

In a week, a month, a year from now, we might have a better version. I don't know we would ever be able to bring ourselves to do it. So it's this convenient fiction almost that we have to believe in in order to go through with any of it.

In a week, a month, a year from now, we might have a better version. I don't know we would ever be able to bring ourselves to do it. So it's this convenient fiction almost that we have to believe in in order to go through with any of it.

Sometimes the alternative is dying, or I think the more pernicious version is you might feel like, well, if I just wait, if I just wait a little bit longer, maybe there'll be something better, when actually waiting can be a terrible decision to make.

Sometimes the alternative is dying, or I think the more pernicious version is you might feel like, well, if I just wait, if I just wait a little bit longer, maybe there'll be something better, when actually waiting can be a terrible decision to make.

Sometimes the alternative is dying, or I think the more pernicious version is you might feel like, well, if I just wait, if I just wait a little bit longer, maybe there'll be something better, when actually waiting can be a terrible decision to make.

The idea is that hypochondria can be a response to some past trauma in the same way that post-traumatic stress disorder is related to a trauma in your past, that hypochondria and illness anxiety can be a response to such a past trauma in a illness or medically related sense. In my case, having had a cancer diagnosis and treatment in my past, That seems very plausible.

The idea is that hypochondria can be a response to some past trauma in the same way that post-traumatic stress disorder is related to a trauma in your past, that hypochondria and illness anxiety can be a response to such a past trauma in a illness or medically related sense. In my case, having had a cancer diagnosis and treatment in my past, That seems very plausible.

The idea is that hypochondria can be a response to some past trauma in the same way that post-traumatic stress disorder is related to a trauma in your past, that hypochondria and illness anxiety can be a response to such a past trauma in a illness or medically related sense. In my case, having had a cancer diagnosis and treatment in my past, That seems very plausible.

I spoke to some people when I was working on the book that had some more circuitous roots to it, such as someone who was a twin and her twin had had some quite serious childhood illnesses that required them to be hospitalised. She, the other twin, had been completely healthy, but watching her twin go through that had then, as an adult, surfaced for her as hypochondria.

I spoke to some people when I was working on the book that had some more circuitous roots to it, such as someone who was a twin and her twin had had some quite serious childhood illnesses that required them to be hospitalised. She, the other twin, had been completely healthy, but watching her twin go through that had then, as an adult, surfaced for her as hypochondria.

I spoke to some people when I was working on the book that had some more circuitous roots to it, such as someone who was a twin and her twin had had some quite serious childhood illnesses that required them to be hospitalised. She, the other twin, had been completely healthy, but watching her twin go through that had then, as an adult, surfaced for her as hypochondria.

Other people who'd had a very close friend pass away young from a serious condition, and then after that had happened, that trauma, they had then developed anxiety about their health, having previously never suffered from it before.

Other people who'd had a very close friend pass away young from a serious condition, and then after that had happened, that trauma, they had then developed anxiety about their health, having previously never suffered from it before.

Other people who'd had a very close friend pass away young from a serious condition, and then after that had happened, that trauma, they had then developed anxiety about their health, having previously never suffered from it before.

So it feels like an idea that checks out to me that you might respond to a really traumatic event by developing the anxiety that something similar might be going to happen to you in the future.

So it feels like an idea that checks out to me that you might respond to a really traumatic event by developing the anxiety that something similar might be going to happen to you in the future.

So it feels like an idea that checks out to me that you might respond to a really traumatic event by developing the anxiety that something similar might be going to happen to you in the future.

Definitely, yes. Some of the therapy I've done has been very specifically about that procedure, actually. The larger question of, oh, this might affect your fertility, I don't even really remember registering with me very hard at the time. I was 17 and the idea of having children felt very remote to me. I was still technically a child myself, according to the health service.