Malady

mal-ad-y (ml-d)*

noun
1. Something both hypochondriacs and drama queens suffer from constantly.
The only malady the old lady had not suffered from was a real one.
2. Something uncomfortable.
As Jean Baptiste Racine once said, "Without money, honour is nothing, but a malady."
3. A poor state of health.
Someone is always calling in sick with some form of malady or another.
I suffer from a combination of all the above.
My maladies are imagined, uncomfortable and often put me into a poor state of health.

Synonyms: affliction, ailment, bug, complaint, condition, disease, diseasedness, distemper, fever, flu, ill health, illness, indisposition, infirmity, plague, sickness, virus, unwellness.

*Similar to, but nothing like, m'lady. Your lady might be a malady, but mine is not.