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worried well
noun
Users of medical or psychiatric services who are not suffering from any diagnosable disease.
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Neuroses are afflictions of the "worried well".
We should test and count ourselves among the "worried well".
We see a lot of the worried well.
As ever, complaints emerge from the "worried well" of parenting.
She is also frank about her prejudices, particularly toward the worried well.
Am I, like so many of my gang, just another one of the "worried well"?
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These results might also be partially due to worried-well callers.
Nor is he worried -- well, not too worried -- about her knowing about his olfactory affair.
Mental health services focus on making the worried-well less worried.
"We've had a lot of worried-well calls," said Dr. Rahul Gupta of the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department.
Angela's worried, well-meaning parents were often the most petulant characters on the show.
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