Absolutely agree. At one point, when I was bad off, I questioned whether it was legit when people would say it's possible. Now I know it is. I still have some work to do, and I understand completely that it's not easy to do, but just know it is indeed possible.
Definitely do what you know is the best for your own mental health. I have a therapist (who didn't know much about health anxiety) suggest that maybe I make a chart of the good and the bad evidence I found on google in relation to my symptoms. The probably the worst advice on HA I've ever received.
This is true. The same can be said for self-checking behavior.
How does this work?
Honestly, it's something we're working on to scratch my own itch. We made a system that takes in any symptom you enter and ask you the same questions a doctor (hence the working with doctors bit) would ask you in a clinical setting, and then present you results that the system thinks would most likely be the outcome based on what you've entered. The results also contain things you could use from a pharmacy to potentially solve the issue. This actually started off because of my personal frustration of going down rabbit holes with Dr Google
That sounds like something that would trigger my health anxiety in a very bad way.
I second that emotion
Out of all these serious illnesses you ever looked up, have you ever had any of them? I would be very surprised if the answer was yes. Is that side of things I think people should be learning from. if you were to list off everything you ever thought you had, I am sure it might be a big list. If you were to list off things you really had, I am sure there would be possibly nothing on that list.
whoa!!!!Definitely do what you know is the best for your own mental health. I have a therapist (who didn't know much about health anxiety) suggest that maybe I make a chart of the good and the bad evidence I found on google in relation to my symptoms. The probably the worst advice on HA I've ever received.
One thing that might be helpful in the OP is a kind of template for a contract with oneself regarding Google and Body Scanning. As is, the OP is a list of reasons to avoid Googling, but doesn't ask people to do anything specific and demonstrable in relation to setting goals. Maybe something like what I've attached here could help with that.
I really have anxiety attacks when I look up my symptoms . I thought that research would help but it just makes it worse. I told my primary care physician about this and his comment was.stay away.from Google. I am fortunate that I can text or call him at anytime. It is hard for me to break the Google habit.
Should have said that when the post was been talked about to begin with. No idea exactly how that would work. Unless people could download the form. Have it with them. Other than that the form would have been in the OP. We are now on page 2 of the thread and people when they click on the thread will end up on the last post made if they used the thread before. Thus missing such a form. Maybe make a post out under this with the wording of the form in it. See if it takes off.
