| rdfs:comment | - I said discomfort because it isn't really pain, exactly. It's more of a slightly, vaguely acidic sensation. I cannot eat my daily extra hot vegetarian curry without almost immediately suffering this symptom. Who knows when the discomfort will spread to milder foods? Everything I eat? Will it eventually worsen, becoming so severe that my ability to eat is impeded? This, my friends, is what I must lay awake thinking about each night. Speaking of laying awake:
- Full: Transfer all conditions from all foes in the area to target foe. Concise: Transfer all conditions from foes in the area to target foe. __TOC__
- Hypochondria is a psychological condition where a person experiences abnormal and chronic anxiety over imagined illnesses. Reginald Barclay suffered from hypochondria, as did William Telfer. It could be treated with medicine or counseling. Telfer, however, was afraid of both, which left The Doctor with simply scanning him and offering him reassurance. Following Telfer's experience with a possible dark matter lifeform, however, he seemed to be cured. (TNG: "Realm of Fear" , "Genesis" ; VOY: "Good Shepherd")
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| abstract | - Hypochondria is a psychological condition where a person experiences abnormal and chronic anxiety over imagined illnesses. Reginald Barclay suffered from hypochondria, as did William Telfer. It could be treated with medicine or counseling. Telfer, however, was afraid of both, which left The Doctor with simply scanning him and offering him reassurance. Following Telfer's experience with a possible dark matter lifeform, however, he seemed to be cured. (TNG: "Realm of Fear" , "Genesis" ; VOY: "Good Shepherd") In 1996, when Tuvok refused to removed his shirt and experience 20th century weather, Tom Paris commented, "Vulcans. Deep down you're all a bunch of hypochondriacs." (VOY: "Future's End") In Photons Be Free, the holonovel written by the USS Voyager's EMH, the Trill character based on Harry Kim, Kymble, was a hypochondriac. (VOY: "Author, Author")
- I said discomfort because it isn't really pain, exactly. It's more of a slightly, vaguely acidic sensation. I cannot eat my daily extra hot vegetarian curry without almost immediately suffering this symptom. Who knows when the discomfort will spread to milder foods? Everything I eat? Will it eventually worsen, becoming so severe that my ability to eat is impeded? This, my friends, is what I must lay awake thinking about each night. Speaking of laying awake:
- Full: Transfer all conditions from all foes in the area to target foe. Concise: Transfer all conditions from foes in the area to target foe. __TOC__
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