My Hypochondria Is All in Your Mind

Any person who is eventually diagnosed with a chronic illness (especially autoimmune disease) will have likely been first labelled a hypochondriac. The likelihood of that happening at least doubles if they are gendered female.

The medical profession has a long history of labelling women as emotionally labile and as unreliable reporters of their own symptoms.

HYSTERIA: A psychological disorder (not now regarded as a single definite condition) whose symptoms include conversion of psychological...