54. Is Dr. Google making us cyberchondriacs?

Having access to an enormous amount of information in the palm of your hand is powerful and dangerous. Googling health symptoms can send you in a direction that takes you farther away from reality. This being overly concerned about one’s health can increase anxiety and decrease your quality of life. 

On today's podcast we discuss hypochondriacs in the age of Google. 

If you are in a crisis or think you have an emergency, call your doctor or 911. If you're 

considering suicide, call 1-800-273-TALK to speak with a skilled trained counselor.

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5:00 Cyberchondria Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

12:00 Investigating the Obsessive and Compulsive Features of Cyberchondria: A Holistic Review

14:00 Cyberchondria: Overlap with health anxiety and unique relations with impairment, quality of life, and service utilization

17:30 Search neutrality - Wikipedia

19:00 Illness Anxiety Disorder - Psychiatric Disorders - Merck Manuals Professional Edition

28:00 Health Anxiety | Psychology Tools

30:00 The biochemistry of belief - PMC

38:30 CME Info - Child Mortality Estimates

42:00 Using information technology to reduce rates of medication errors in hospitals - PMC

46:30 The Health Belief Model

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