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4 Things That Happen When You Google Your Symptoms

Do I have that too?

Once you’re doing your detailed read, you’ll often notice that no disease or symptom exists in isolation, there are a lot of other symptoms that can co-occur. These are often hyperlinked in case the reader wishes to know about them more in detail. Many times, these hyperlinks look so fascinating and tempting, most of us quite stupidly click on them only to have a panic attack. What our search began with was a harmless anxiety created muscle twitch which has now evolved into multiple sclerosis.

I’m going to die

After an hour or more of searching through most of the posts, videos, you turn off your internet, curl up in your blanket and start sobbing. Thoughts about death start entering your mind and you realize you have very little time left. Should you finally message your crush? Should you pursue your hobbies with more zeal? Should you be nicer to your parents? You call your friends and ask them to convince you that you won’t die. They try, and succeed to some extent, but the act of googling your symptoms leaves you scarred. Once you have, there’s no turning back. You just try to live life as well as you can now.

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M. Megha

A passionate writer, artist, movie buff and a hard core non vegetarian, she enjoys trying new and different things. Comedy and thriller movies are her sources of comfort. A student of psychology, she finds the subject fascinating and often incorporates it into the occasional fictional pieces she pens down.
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