worried well

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Definition of worried well in English English dictionary

Users of medical or psychiatric services who are not suffering from any diagnosable disease

In cities with a high and more visible number of men becoming sick and dying from AIDS, the worried well report panic attacks, somatic preoccupations, and difficulty functioning on the job because of obsessional worrying about the syndrome..

Hyphenation

wor·ried well

Turkish pronunciation

wırid wel

Pronunciation

/ˈwərēd ˈwel/ /ˈwɜriːd ˈwɛl/

Etymology

() Coined in 1970 by Sidney Garfield, founder of Kaiser Permanente.