Hypochondriac?

[BristolSt]

Been seeing someone a few months now and have noticed he always seems to want to label an illness on himself. When we first met it was some virus type thing beginning with M he was obsessed with and kept going backwards and forwards to doctors with it. Then it became cancer and he kept going backwards and forwards to doctors about that, then it was some spine thing which he demanded tests for and now its ME.

The thing is, now that he's got the idea of ME in his head, he plays up to it constantly saying he's tired (which he never did before) and constantly falling asleep.

He's generally a great bloke and we get on really well but is this behaviour likely to escalate? I'm not the most sympathetic of people at the best of times but people that constantly go on and on about illnesses piss me right off. I think I'm only tolerating it as well as I am because we're still in the 'honeymoon' period!

I don't know about escalate but I lived with a hypochondriac lodger for three whole years once and, by the end of it, I had to throw her out or I'd have rammed her Chinese Herbal Medicine where the sun don't shine.... The clue with her was that she was always 'ill' but had no faith in conventional medicine because the doctors said there was nothing wrong. (And they were right!!!) My home became a shrine to every bottle of snake oil doing the rounds

I suppose you have to be charitable for now and see if he's genuinely ill. But if the ME magically clears up and he starts struggling with something else equally vague.... regard as highly suspect. The constantly falling asleep thing is pretty boring regardless.

Unless you enjoy dressing up in a nurse's uniform pandering to those who are fitter and stronger than you are, RUN like the wind... and don't look back.