limited use of internet and health anxiety at zero.

[Izthewiz]

Hello friends
recently i posted about getting rid of a smart phone and very very limited time or use of internet via a computer
at under 10 minutes of use per day or less and no news.
it seems my health anxiety is gone and my mood is stable
Currently i take nothing.

I honestly believe there to be a strong connection between the explosion of knowledge via smart phones, being connected 24/7.
that has accelerated all forms of anxiety and depression within the western populations.
Personally i believe smart phones should come with a black box warning like cigarettes , prescription drugs do
[May cause anxiety, depressed thoughts and distracted or altered mood]

500 years ago mankind wasn.t worried about what was trending or what people thought about them
their main concern was about survival, farming , raising their children and giving thanks to God
I hope one day society can return to a time of simplicity and minimalist ways.
What was created to bring us closer has done a lot of the opposite.

 

[Izthewiz]

Things are still going good i fear nothing but God.
my mood is more stable then ever just a normal guy living life one day at a time.

 

[bigjetplane22]

I just Googled something and I am doing very bad again.

 

[AMcSwain]

I just Googled something and I am doing very bad again.

That is the worst thing to do. I am so guilty of it and I have been trying so hard not to! I hope things get better

 

[JustMe]

Things are still going good i fear nothing but God.
my mood is more stable then ever just a normal guy living life one day at a time.

This has worked for me also.

 

[JADIII]

I'm actually going through another thing right now that I won't bring up here (yet). If it helps anyone, I've been going through this sh*t for years and am still yet to have anything significant wrong with me. Here's my assessment of the problem(s) that we/I face here.

1) Web MD, etc. - You can take any symptom you have and if you dig just enough you will trace it to what you think you have. So using cancer as an example. You put in a symptom like I'm having now and it leads to cancer or liver failure. I just have some what look like bug bites (maybe fleas from the dog or bed bugs) which I course I squeezed and popped them so now I have what looks like a heroin addict would have on their arms which is bruising in some spots.

2) My Charts or Doctor portals - So if you're like me, next time you get your blood work done, they will Email you a day later with your "results". Most of the time I'll get them on a Friday night or during the weekend so I have no perspective from an MD. So anything that's "out of range" I'll investigate until I've hit the end of the internet researching it. Even if the range is let's say 4-100 and I'm at 101, I freak out. They results can't be read in a silo and must be looked at with other results to even draw attention to an MD. I've learned that lets say my liver count is really high which it was a few months ago. I stopped drinking (actually just cut back) and it went back to normal. In fact, I was at a party and had this incontrollable nosebleed so I went to the ER while I was drinking and my counts were still normal.

3) Commercials on TV- I work from home and I'm being literal. Every commercial on TV is for a drug or plaintiff attorney. This morning I actually sat and listened to a commercial which was 1 minute long for diabetes or something. The side effects or what it could do to you took 35 seconds to explain "could cause toungue swelling leading to death, could liver failure, could cause higher blood sugar, will cause some weight gain, etc............

That being said and I'm the furthest from an optimist you will ever see. I've wasted years looking to have one of these diseases that I never seem to get. I'm 54 and someone once said to me. Do you honestly think you're going to wakeup one day with a symptom of let's say pancreatic cancer, make a doctor appt and go to him and he will say, "Yep, perfect diagnosis". Ok, lets start your treatment. Has that ever happened, maybe but I've never heard of it nor has my 55 year old MD.

Your mind can give you the symptoms you "want" to have and stress and anxiety tend to make you focus on just what part of your body. Last word of wisdom and I don't necessarily recommend this but it works.

If you're having symptoms of something and it's not this obvious heart attack or you're having an aneurism, etc. Have a drink or two. Like me, your symptoms will go away and you'll be focused on something else.

Sorry guess I had a lot to get off my chest.
Oh, I forgot to mention this also. When you go in an google one of your "symptoms", like ALS. Go onto Facebook or your home search engine. I guarantee you within an hour or so, you will get an ad for ALS and maybe a celebrity who died from it of a treatment center to go to. It's a f*cking joke for people who suffer from HA.