If you suffer from anxiety, you may have moments when you wonder if you’re losing your grip, or “going crazy.” For some people, this is just a passing thought. For others, however, it can become a major fear. The more the idea dominates your thought process, the more it can seem like you really are going crazy.
It can sometimes be tricky to determine whether you are focusing enough on your health. Are you obsessing about it? Or are you neglecting an important symptom? What’s the happy medium?
[Read more…]You can Google any symptoms, illness or syndrome and get results summarizing the relevant information. Websites like WebMD, the Mayo Clinic, and MedlinePlus make a wealth of health information available to everyone. WebMD even has an interactive feature where you enter symptoms, and it then generates a list of potential diagnoses and the likelihood each is valid. Isn’t the Internet great?
[Read more…]Are you concerned you might be a hypochondriac? A hypochondriac is someone who is unusually or unnecessarily anxious and concerned about their health. Everyone worries about their health to some extent, so how do you know when you’ve crossed the line to being a hypochondriac?
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