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WCDT 2961-2965 (18-22 May 2015)
Doc:
Doctor Google is scary.
I asked him: How many diseases do I have? and he gave me 338.000.000 results!
Mr. Skawronska:
Ya gotta be careful with dem Inernets!
Especially when you look up your symptoms and the top Google result is: "How the Fszk are you even ALIVE?"
Followed by:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 18 May 2015, 19:24 ---WebMD results: You are going to die. In fifty years, give or take fifty years.
--- End quote ---
Except mine is: "You are going to die. Yesterday. You should not be alive. You should be working on a good rigor mortis."
And I'm thinking, "And today looked so good from this morning..."
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: Tova on 18 May 2015, 21:58 ---My take on this is that it is perfectly normal to become concerned about something like this, but for someone with anxiety issues, concern could boil over into something quite traumatic.
--- End quote ---
Exactly.
See a doc.
If all-clear given (spoiler says it will be) then can treat any remaining anxiety with cognitive therapy.
Mlle Germain:
I can relate to Hanners a lot in this arc.
I do not have any other anxiety issues, but I am a hypochondriac (with actual illnesses more often than the average person, which does not make that any better) and have to stop myself from googling symptoms more or less on a weekly basis.
I would probably not worry about a scratched mole so much (except if it was this size and I really didn't know it was there before), because I have mine checked by a dermatologist pretty regularly. But just one evening last week I suddenly had a weird, 1x2x0.5cm red bump under one eye and pretty much did exactly what Hanners did; one of my housemates heard me freak out and came to ask what was wrong. That was actually quite embarrassing, because I don't know him that well and had to tell him that I was scared I would have to run around with the bump for the rest of my life and never have a normal face again. When I said it out loud, this sounded a lot less reasonable than in my head.
It turns out the bump came from an allergic reaction and was gone by the time I got to see a doctor the next afternoon.
How do you stop yourself from being a hypochondriac when you know too much about all the illnesses that exist? I'm just happy I didn't choose to study medicine.
CM_albion:
Hanners lis..Han...Hallelore will you please....calm dow...hanners..you're not....eugh, fuckit. better to wait this one out.
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