标签：Catastrophic thinking

There was once a man named John who was a hypochondriac. He was always convinced that he had some sort of illness or disease, and he was constantly going to the doctor to get checked out. One day, John went to see his doctor and told him that he was experiencing a sharp pain in his side. The doctor examined him and couldn’t find anything wrong, but John insisted that there was something seriously wrong with him. The doctor tried to reassure John that he was perfectly healthy, but John wouldn’t listen. He went to see another doctor, who also couldn’t find anything wrong with him. John then went to see a specialist, who ran a battery of tests on...