If you have a pair of over-the-ear headphones, I welcome you to set them on fire and breath in the Completely Harmless™ smoke emanating from them, and report back here on how you're not at all worried.
Hypochondriasis is classified as a mental disorder in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Calling someone a hypochondriac is an insult if you're doing it based on thin speculation, because it's just a more specific way of saying that someone is "mentally ill".
The fact that your comment is not an official medical diagnosis is precisely why it's an insult. It's like calling someone "psychotic" outside of a clinical context.
Since whenever you don't use it to describe yourself.
Especially when it's used to dismiss OP's burns, doubly so without so much as having even seen the OP.
Add to this that the OP said that they were told that these are chemical burns by the doctor in urgent care. So calling them a hypochondriac implies they lied about it too.
It's quite insulting, in short, and let's not pretend we don't know that.
you can be injured for real and still be a hypochondriac. They can absolutely be true at the same time.
You can get the feeling someone is probably likely to be a hypochondriac by the way people speak about their problems. I hope you have realized that by now throughout your lifetime.
OP has experienced serious chemical burns from using Bose QuietComfort 35 II headphones. Burns that he got examined by medical professionals at the urgent care he went to that told him that his pain is due to a chemical burn.
The OP is still experiencing pain.
What you say is in violation of rules of this forum.
If you have a pair of over-the-ear headphones, I welcome you to set them on fire and breath in the Completely Harmless™ smoke emanating from them, and report back here on how you're not at all worried.
Until then, please, be civil to others.