Believing that 'I must be ill' and continuing to search for solutions on the Internet What is 'cyber psychosis'?
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There should be many people who feel anxious that something that happened to their body or their children is 'a serious illness.' Do an online search on their own of facing anxiety compulsive ' cyber hypochondriac people are having', the search and own anxiety even if does not solve, and there is a tendency to to escalate their anxiety Scientific Reported by American .
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Colleen Abel found a red rash on her right chest the day after she fed her child. The cause was not known, and Abel speculated that 'the injury caused by the child caused some kind of infection' or 'it might be a bite of the worm.' When Abel searches Google for a rash, he finds out that the search result is 'inflammatory breast cancer ' and Abel is shocked. Although she is much more likely to have dermatitis than breast cancer, she believes she is breast cancer and continues to collect information on breast cancer on the Internet for three or four hours every day.
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Abel's case is a typical example of “ cyber psychosis ”. Cyber psychosis is a search engine such as Google that searches for anxiety such as one's medical condition, further increases one's anxiety from the search results, and continues searching as if it depends. Cyber psychosis is not a disease that can be identified by diagnosis in American psychiatry, and it is unclear how many people actually suffer from cyber psychosis.
Thomas Fergus, an associate professor of psychology at Baylor University in Texas, USA, is an expert on 'relief seeking psychology' like cyber psychosis. Fergus, in conjunction with Professor Marcantonio Spada of the University of London South Bank, has published a study that cyber psychosis is strongly associated with obsessive compulsive disorder . People with obsessive-compulsive disorder believe that their anxiety can be reduced by taking their own ritual action, but for those with cyber psychosis they search for hours of their anxiety online What you do is 'ritual action'.
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Information about health online is often inconsistent, and it is impossible to judge 'which information is correct?' Therefore, the question is 'which information do you believe in?' Rather than 'which information is correct?' Abel who found a rash on his chest once believed that it was 'inflammatory breast cancer' and then ignored the information that breast cancer was an unusual disease, and began to collect only the information that he was convinced that it was breast cancer. About.
After spending two months searching for breast cancer for a long time, Abel decided to get a diagnosis at the hospital. The diagnostic result was a fungal infection called candita disease, which was benign so that it could be cured quickly by treatment. Abel says that when he was searching for his illness on Google search, search results pointing to candidiasis never appeared.
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Treatments for cyber psychosis include antidepressants and speech therapy, as well as cognitive behavioral therapies that have their own questions about 'the feeling of trying to believe in their anxiety.' After treating candida disease, Abel says he is aware that he has a tendency towards cyber psychosis. Mr. Abel commented that 'everyone has anxiety and is not ashamed of shame as a way to cope with his anxiety'.
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