So in essence hypochondriasis is when a person misreads their everyday physical experiences as symptoms for some deadly illness or disease. That is what happened to me, and I just revered at the thought of trips to the Pharmacy to grow my collection of Western Medicine. It had to be Western Medicine; it had to be medicine which was scientifically proven by white doctors to work, otherwise I wouldn’t trust it. It had to be the medicine I could grab off a counter with an expense tied to it or I wouldn’t believe it would work. My grandma would tell me about all of these cheaper and more natural remedies she would use in her day and all I could think was “but have they been scientifically proven to work”. And this is what my essay will be about; the fact that deep down we’ve all been
So in essence hypochondriasis is when a person misreads their everyday physical experiences as symptoms for some deadly illness or disease. That is what happened to me, and I just revered at the thought of trips to the Pharmacy to grow my collection of Western Medicine. It had to be Western Medicine; it had to be medicine which was scientifically proven by white doctors to work, otherwise I wouldn’t trust it. It had to be the medicine I could grab off a counter with an expense tied to it or I wouldn’t believe it would work. My grandma would tell me about all of these cheaper and more natural remedies she would use in her day and all I could think was “but have they been scientifically proven to work”. And this is what my essay will be about; the fact that deep down we’ve all been