...Cause You Can't Have One Without the Other

Hypo-chon-dria…
Cyber-chon-dria…
Go together like the net and in-somnia…
This, I tell ya brother…
You can’t have one, without the oth-er!

Okay, that was lame. Let this be a lesson to you all! Do not let your anti-social tendencies control you; you can only lock yourself in the house for so many weekends, without loosing your mind.

But really, cyberchondria and hypochondria do go hand in hand. How the hypos of centuries past got by without the net is beyond me.

I’d never even heard of cyberchondria until a couple weeks ago. But, after learning about it, I can’t imagine being a hypo, without being a cybo(?). So, that makes me wonder if resisting the “evil” call of the net, to search for potential diseases, is part of the cure.

Personally, I know every couple months when I go on my breast cancer kick, I find myself incessantly reading, and seeking out articles about young girls dying from the disease. Obsessively reading and re-reading the symptoms. Man, kinda creepy, when you think about it.

So, when it comes to surfing the net in a fit of hypochondria, how about some words of wisdom from Harvard Med School’s Dr. Barsky: “Don’t do it.”