In one of the old science fiction stories by Herbert George Wells, there is a gentleman obsessed with the idea of "losing weight" - and one day he really finds an ancient remedy, after taking which he literally becomes weightless and is forced to wear metal weights in his clothes and underwear for the rest of his days. It's just that any obsession with your illnesses should have reasonable limits.

However, medicine does know many examples where people went to doctors, absolutely sure that they had some serious diseases, and no diagnoses, tests or explanations could actually affect them. So this collection by Bored Panda is dedicated to just such cases of patients totally faking their illnesses.

My cousin got glasses. Her 7 year old little sister also wanted glasses because she thought it

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