Caroline Crampton

pins and needles or pains that can't be readily explained or identified and that would put me under the other one so I don't know whether splitting them has necessarily helped the understanding or enhanced the treatment and actually that has been the sort of academic consensus around that that way of splitting them too.

I agree. I also think it's readily understandable by most people that you might say it to. This has been a big part of writing the book, actually, and talking to a lot of people about it, is this feeling that hypochondria, illness, anxiety disorder, health anxiety, whatever you want to call it, is in some ways just... a yearning to be understood and to be seen and to be empathised with.

I agree. I also think it's readily understandable by most people that you might say it to. This has been a big part of writing the book, actually, and talking to a lot of people about it, is this feeling that hypochondria, illness, anxiety disorder, health anxiety, whatever you want to call it, is in some ways just... a yearning to be understood and to be seen and to be empathised with.

I agree. I also think it's readily understandable by most people that you might say it to. This has been a big part of writing the book, actually, and talking to a lot of people about it, is this feeling that hypochondria, illness, anxiety disorder, health anxiety, whatever you want to call it, is in some ways just... a yearning to be understood and to be seen and to be empathised with.

So if you use words that most people don't fully know the meaning of, then you've kind of fallen at the first hurdle. So illness, anxiety, two words everyone understands, I think.

So if you use words that most people don't fully know the meaning of, then you've kind of fallen at the first hurdle. So illness, anxiety, two words everyone understands, I think.

So if you use words that most people don't fully know the meaning of, then you've kind of fallen at the first hurdle. So illness, anxiety, two words everyone understands, I think.

Yeah, so people fall into either care-seeking or care-avoidant. People tend to be very polarised. I'm definitely care-seeking. I think whether it's helpful or not often depends on the type of doctor that you see. I've seen some incredibly helpful doctors and I've seen some incredibly unhelpful ones. So in some ways it feels a bit like the luck of the draw.

Yeah, so people fall into either care-seeking or care-avoidant. People tend to be very polarised. I'm definitely care-seeking. I think whether it's helpful or not often depends on the type of doctor that you see. I've seen some incredibly helpful doctors and I've seen some incredibly unhelpful ones. So in some ways it feels a bit like the luck of the draw.

Yeah, so people fall into either care-seeking or care-avoidant. People tend to be very polarised. I'm definitely care-seeking. I think whether it's helpful or not often depends on the type of doctor that you see. I've seen some incredibly helpful doctors and I've seen some incredibly unhelpful ones. So in some ways it feels a bit like the luck of the draw.

You never know quite what you're going to get. But I think I would... I would always encourage people to seek medical help if they have a reason to do so, if that makes sense. I think I, on balance, feel it's always better to go than not go.

You never know quite what you're going to get. But I think I would... I would always encourage people to seek medical help if they have a reason to do so, if that makes sense. I think I, on balance, feel it's always better to go than not go.

You never know quite what you're going to get. But I think I would... I would always encourage people to seek medical help if they have a reason to do so, if that makes sense. I think I, on balance, feel it's always better to go than not go.

No, it doesn't at all. It's no guarantee that you won't test differently another day. I do my best to take medical personnel at face value, if that makes sense. And I try and do this test in my mind of if it's serious enough for me to worry about, then it's serious enough for me to go to the doctor. And if it's serious enough again, I'll go to the doctor again.

No, it doesn't at all. It's no guarantee that you won't test differently another day. I do my best to take medical personnel at face value, if that makes sense. And I try and do this test in my mind of if it's serious enough for me to worry about, then it's serious enough for me to go to the doctor. And if it's serious enough again, I'll go to the doctor again.

No, it doesn't at all. It's no guarantee that you won't test differently another day. I do my best to take medical personnel at face value, if that makes sense. And I try and do this test in my mind of if it's serious enough for me to worry about, then it's serious enough for me to go to the doctor. And if it's serious enough again, I'll go to the doctor again.

I think I used to have a lot of shame and concern over time wasting or

I think I used to have a lot of shame and concern over time wasting or

I think I used to have a lot of shame and concern over time wasting or

uh taking up resources that other people could be using especially acute because here in the uk we're very lucky to have our health care free and state funded so but it does feel like there are limited resources to go around to everybody and i could be taking a spot that somebody with a more serious condition could use i have with the help of therapy tried to get over those feelings and uh understand that you know i'm worthy of attention just as anybody else is and that i'm not time wasting i am