Hypochondria? It's an imaginary illness. Illness is a physical condition. How can it be unreal? There are cases in actual life when a person obsessively believes that he or she is suffering from certain specific symptoms of a disease, which do not exist. Yes, it can happen. It happened to me—a tragic victim of the adverse impact of ubiquitous ads.

This book is the story of how it began and how I passed through three long agonizing decades of suffering from acute chest pain and survived another forty plus years to recount the dour narrative.