Hypochondria & Cell Phones

I developed hypochondria at age eight. During a family vacation to Niagra Falls, we went to the Ripleys Believe It Or Not wax museum. One of the displays were of kids that have the disease Progeria, which is some rare disease where they age seven years every birthday, so even though the kid is the size of an eight year old, he looks like hes fifty. It was intense and traumatic and I was convinced I had the disease.

Forget that it was rare and that only one in every ten million people are inflicted....hence the reason why it was in the Ripleys Believe It Or Not museum, rationalizing logic doesnt apply when your eight. After all I believed in flying reindeers, being inflicted with an illness that actually exists not that far fetched.

Anyway, knowing that I was sensitive on the subject, my older sister put baby powder in my hair while I slept. Then when I woke up she acted all distraught as she brought me in front of the mirror, and pointed out my head full of gray hairs.

I was horrified! And as I ran my fingers through my powder was coming off my head! I figured it was a sign of aging. Old people have dusty heads, I dont know, I was dying and that sucked!! Anyways after a couple hours of constant crying my sister let me off the hook. Looking back on it couple hours? kinda excessive?

And because of this experience I have a hypochondria of brain cancer, and thats why I wear an earpiece when Im on the cell phone.