Have you discovered three orphan diseases and four cancers by dint of zoning on Doctissimo? You are not alone. The Web is the kryptonite of the hypochondriac, it feeds its anguish with articles from newspapers, scientific publications, blogs, forums ... Easy to identify with descriptions of diseases, forgetting the other symptoms necessary for diagnosis .
Hypochondria would affect 13% of the French, according to a Ifop / Capital Image study carried out in 2014. Concerned in a disproportionate way of their health in the absence of any symptom, they declare to be afraid of being affected by a disease by hearing talk about this disease in the media (for 48% of them) by reading something about it on an information website (43%) or by hearing about this disease from a loved one (41%). And the Covid-19 period did nothing to improve the situation, with the media looping over the coronavirus.
If you have become very anxious by looking at your symptoms online, if you are no longer able to drop medical sites and the anxiety of falling sick prevents you from living, your testimony interests us. You can testify by filling out the form below. Your stories will be used to write an article for a new series called “Cassés Net”. Thank you in advance.
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