2 Metaphors for hypochondrias

Hypochondria is a species of torment which not only makes us unreasonably cross with the things of the present; not only fills us with groundless anxiety on the score of future misfortunes entirely of our own manufacture; but also leads to unmerited self-reproach for what we have done in the past.

A passive hypochondria, born of their isolation, was the last ludicrously pathetic touch of their situation.

2 Metaphors for  hypochondrias