Cyberchondriacs Invade the Internet

A new term has been added to Internet maladies, Cyberchondria. Ninety percent of those who are already hypochondriacs one-up their malady when they gain Internet access, according to Dr. Brian Fallon of Columbia University. He says that these users sometimes become obsessive compulsive.

“Cyberchondria can be a terrible, devastating disease in the sense that the individual focuses on nothing other than checking their symptoms on the Internet and it destroys their lives,” he said.
We see his point. We checked out some symptoms of our own and it scared us to the point that we may never hit Web MD again.

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