Thread Topic: Welcome to the Hypochrondria Forum
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disorderguy
Joined: May 5, '09
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2009-05-05 07:16:53 |
| Health anxiety and the new beast, "cyberchondria" can completely overtake one's life. It can be a struggle to deal with these worries. This forum was created as a non-judgemental place to talk openly about dealing with hyperchondria. Feel free to get the discussion going. | |
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Unanswered Thread: Nothing wrong with paranoia. posted by IntroduckToni 1 day ago |
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sammie
Joined: May 5, '09
Status: New User |
2009-05-05 10:03:55 |
| Thanks for the forum. | |
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2rlyblssd
Joined: Jun 8, '09
Status: New User |
2009-06-08 10:50:57 |
| I am very happy to have found this forum -- I had a rather difficult time finding one once I realized what I had. I had family members and spouse tell me that I was a hypochondriac, and I would get so offended and hurt that they seemed to be dismissing me or just didn't care. It got me wondering though, and I started to look at myself objectively and realized what was going on. I have suffered for years with anxiety disorder(s), and this is fundamentally an avoidance technique I'm sure... | |
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oanadoledo
Joined: Dec 9, '09
Status: New User |
2009-12-13 02:14:47 |
| The first systematic study of cyberchondria, reported in November 2008, was performed by Microsoft researchers Ryen White and Eric Horvitz, who conducted a large-scale study that included several phases of analysis.[7] The New York Times covered the study.[10] White and Horvitz defined cyberchondria as the “unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomatology, based on the review of search results and literature on the Web.” They analyzed a representative crawl of the web for co-occurrences of symptoms with diseases in web content as well as the content returned as search results from queries on symptoms and found surprisingly high rates of linkage of rare, concerning diseases (e.g., brain tumor) to common symptoms (e.g., headache). | |
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Unanswered Thread: My results posted by lucky13 2 days ago |
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