Hypochondriacs...

[OneeyedJohn]

A serious question as everyone takes their health seriously.

Let's not make this an opportunity to slag a particular section

of the human race, but, how do you cope with someone who perhaps

is not ill but is forever complaining of this and that ailment.

This particular malady is not confined to either Male or Female, so your views please.

[leisurely]

I think that there are hypochondriacs everywhere - I myself am one . Part of the reason, for me at least, is that healthcare is so affordable that you can pay to have every little ache and pain and bump checked out, also, the internet is a treasure trove of symptoms and diagnoses.

[gisele]

I think that there are hypochondriacs everywhere - I myself am one . Part of the reason, for me at least, is that healthcare is so affordable that you can pay to have every little ache and pain and bump checked out, also, the internet is a treasure trove of symptoms and diagnoses.

There's a different view here about going to the hospital/clinic/doctor, back home you don't go to the doctor unless you really feel that the pharmacist can't help. I remember being told once by a doctor that my cold wasn't bad enough to have come to see her, that I was wasting her time (she had great bedside manners ), that was in Canada.

Now, here, my husband wants me to go to the hospital at the slightest sign of a cold, aches and pains. I generally resist but it is not only he that encourages me to go, it is at the workplace too. If I say that I have a headache, my colleagues at the university or even the students will ask if I have gone to the hospital yet.

[OneeyedJohn]

Gee, I was beginning to get a complex with no replies....

What prompted me to start this was reading the hooror stories of Pattaya hospitals. It sort of scared me a little, especially should one become ill in a big way.

In England my wife would frequent the doctor (GP, - general practictioner,,maybe a Jack of all trades but master of none ) and come back relieved but with no serious diagnosis. Just like crying WOLF i was sympathetic initially, but eventually it began to wear a bit thin. My wife is no different to any other Thai in that confrontation would get me nowhere, a nd furthermore drive her innermost feelings deeper inside.

Medical treatment in England is basically free, so this was never a financial burden for me, however in Thailand that is not the case. So whilst I would never ever shirk paying for whatever is required here, i still don't wish to throw money away on party packs of pills that essentially and usually do naff all to alleviate the sysmpton.

This is subjective, and internet anomymity allows me to discuss my wife ( bless her cotton socks)

Thx.