What is Cyberchondria and Who Has it?
If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases, problems, etc. based on information found such as symptoms, but symptoms are only part of the story and many issues share the same symptoms, so in essence before you decide it is time to visit the ER room, you could have yourself mentally lying on your death bed and this is what cyberchondria is all about. Let’s say only looking at symptoms and not including perhaps some medications being taken, well that leaves out some side effects that may need to be ruled out too. When arriving at the ER room without any type of documentation, especially when one is not feeling at their best may relate to something like “I take the blue pill twice a day, the white one in the morning, and the red one when
If you are one of many, well like all of us in the search for information relative to healthcare today, the self diagnosing trends are alive and well. With the wealth of information we have available, it is easy to do a little reading and self diagnose yourself with an entire multitude of diseases, problems, etc. based on information found such as symptoms, but symptoms are only part of the story and many issues share the same symptoms, so in essence before you decide it is time to visit the ER room, you could have yourself mentally lying on your death bed and this is what cyberchondria is all about. Let’s say only looking at symptoms and not including perhaps some medications being taken, well that leaves out some side effects that may need to be ruled out too. When arriving at the ER room without any type of documentation,…
