Health Anxiety and GOOGLE
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Me: I have a headache
(Types in on google “causes of headaches)
Google: Brain Tumour
My brain is exhausted from googling and thinking all day, after work yesterday I layed down and googled. On my breaks at work, google, and even when I’m working, I’m thinking about it, it’s destroying me.
Same
I understand. Same here. Its awfull
@@dmmiller1991 did you recover now? And do you exercise for health like gym?
I also went through a phase of thinking i had lymphoma, Dr Google has diagnosed me with everything. haha i was so irrational
Ryan Dr Google is a d*ck 😂
Same, I’m going through that phase right now and I need to not look at google !!
same i've like 3 innnocent lymph nodes and no symptoms at all but i shit myself every day just thinking about it.
It’s crazy to see how much people here struggle with health anxiety, I hope you all are doing well 🙏🏼🧿
I needed 6 doctors to tell me I didn't have a brain tumor. In the span of 2 months I thought I had a brain tumor, a heart attack, bladder infection, an aneurysm, and now lymphoma. I hate this. And honestly it all started with me googling my headache after a couple days. Turns out my C1 and C2 vertebrae are misaligned which has been causing my headaches. After going to a chiropractor who specializes in upper cervical work i have felt so much better but my health anxiety is still with me and I hate it.
Best thing I ever did was delete Google!
It’s hard not to look. But it gets better in time. I’m so grateful for your videos, I feel so less alone. Hope your well lovely ❤️ xxxx
Molly Isabella Thanks so much for the support hun. Really means a lot. 💗 Google is awful isn’t it! Well done for deleting it! Xxxx
Dr google diagnosed me with brain tumors. Thank you dr google for ruining my happy life 😃.
I don't have health anxiety for myself, but I have near crippling health anxiety for my cats. I have lost hours on Google looking up symptoms of cat illnesses and learning about more illnesses and vague warning signs, etc. My brain just spirals and I get massively anxious and I know I should stop Googling but I couldn't. Then suddenly I see symptoms everywhere all the time on my cats. Someone on a pet anxiety reddit post recommended this channel and I'm glad I found you.
Thank you for mentioning the forums and support groups as particularly harmful. I’ve never had much of a problem with WebMD and those sort of official sites, but the patient forums have done me so much harm over the last 12 years. Like you say, they all think that everyone who mentions vague symptoms has their disease, and it’s often people with the worst outcomes that hang around in these groups (obviously, if you have a condition and then get well, you’re probably not going to want to spend much time in a patient forum). And it really bothers me now that you see the same rhetoric that used to be contained in these forums all over TikTok etc.
I hate anxiety so much. I'm dealing with constipation but I got myself thinking I have colon cancer. It's not like it's anyone fault, but when I heard about Chadwick Boseman's death I can't stop thinking about it.
Omg same 😭. I was so scared I’ve been constipacted and I thought I had colon cancer
James are you on antidepressant tablets? Forgive me for being so forward. It's just I was on 150mg of Venice and they made me constipation. I am now on 75mg and it's a lot better. Best wishes to you.
James Its vensir. This word search is too quick.
I have a lump under my jaw and recently went to get it checked . Dr said it felt like a cyst. Went home and started googling about it.. worst mistake..:(
I have always been prone to anxiety but due to a misdiagnosed health issue a few years ago, I've realised that it's triggered health anxiety and I now regularly feed into that behaviour/feeling. Didn't realise that's what it was until I saw this video. I was even googling stuff today; going to actively try and stop that behaviour now
You're just like me. I feared and still kinda fear colon cancer. This anxiety has really destroyed me. I'm 18 years old and I've had this since I was 14. My mom literally had to tell me that I was legit destroying my life.
Same. Google is the reason i'm a hypochondriac, they literally tie almost every symptom with some kind of cancer. At one point it gave me such severe anxiety, I could barely eat for a couple days
Lil Lil Bro, I lost 10 pounds due to it. I’m gaining it back tho. Hope you’re doing well :)
@@milkman2742 Same to you man. I'm learning to overcome it. Every once in a while I'm tempted to search whenever I feel something, but I try to remind myself that Google isn't reliable for this stuff. I've had this since last year, it started with one google search, and it led to a downward spiral of my mental health. Worst part is, my loss of apetite happened on my graduation week. Such awful timing. It eventually came back tho once I calmed down. My anxiety improved since then, all we have to do is resist any temptation, and just ask someone we can trust, rather than google
Same😔
Rini Chakraborty I gets you. It’s just now getting better
Fear of death is like not wanting to sleep eat or drink...it has to happen so there is no point in worrying about it
Right! Once you die, your in the presence of God and in your real home you always wanted of Peace and Love
I would think that I had either ALS, MS, and the big one.... Lyme Disease because the drs never trusted it. But I’ve had multiple tests done and NOTHING! Just a pinched nerve in my spine... still have weird symptoms everyday and racing thoughts daily... but google literally destroyed me... I was search and search and SEARCH!!! I literally became psychosomatic because of google 🤦🏻♀️
I so hope this is me. I'm Male 42 soon have a wife and a daughter who's only 4 . And thinking of going to have stem cell therapy as symptoms are scary as hell. Which ones did you have if you don't mind me asking . Thank you 🙏
@@KyzerGB Hi, how are you now ? I get hot flashes, and twitches all over, lump in the throat feeling.
Pretty sure the big one would be ALS. Just saying. Give me Lyme Disease any day.
I am suffering health anxiety right now 😭😭, it feels like I am not in myself anymore 😔😔
anyone could cheer up me? 🥺
Omds same
How old are you?
20, bout you? we'll get through this
@@yvonneagase881 how are you feeling now? im 19 and going thru this its really hard
My tummy is my new fear and if its a pain in my side = liver, gallbladder. If it is middle tummy pain then its colon, bowel, ovary cancer etc gosh it is never ending.
Everything you said is am exactly how I feel. I’m currently healing from a health anxiety cycle and did the whole forum, Facebook group thing and I was convinced I had something that I’m not realizing I don’t have, and I removed myself from that group a couple days after joining. Even seeing notifications pop up from the group became a trigger for me to start spiraling.
I can't tell you how strongly I relate to this struggle. I've had an issue with chronic facial pain for a while. Because the pain is always present, as soon as I have a quiet moment my mind is racing about worst case scenarios for the underlying cause. I've probably convinced myself I have a brain tumor 25 times in the past two months (though doctors tell me its very unlikely). Your videos give me comfort that I'm not alone in having this problem and confidence that I can overcome it. Thank you!!
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Did you started having fake symptoms which just simply disappear and appear
Just getting over a sinus infection. Thought it might be covid. Googled the symptoms. Oh yes. I have that. I have that. Oh. I have that. And sometimes if I did not have a symptom it seemed like it would appear just thinking about it. ! Loss of taste smell ? No. But next day. Yes ! Turned out I was negative for covid. You are right. We cannot just say. “Ummm. This is anxiety. It causes all of these weird symptoms and feelings. You are basically putting your body into fight or flight and the cycle continues. “. Nope. Straight to cancer, brain tumor, MS. Etc. and we forget all of our coping skills and make it worse. Eat crap, don’t exercise/meditate, get good sleep. Etc. Stuck in a loop. Sigh.
your videos are really helpful so thank you! also i love your dog!
I don’t even google non health things to stay away from google! Great video!!
Jason Pham That is some real discipline! Well done!
So glad I discovered this channel
Wow this is the best video I've ever seen, thank you, your content is really helpful!
Hey - thank you for this
Stephen Beck you’re welcome :) thank you for watching!
Thank you for this video and your others! I'm watching this instead of Googling...just closed the Google tab! It's ruining my life too - with all the hours I spend on it and then freaking out - and the self-diagnosing is out of control. I need to do similar things to cut it off. Your results make me more motivated, thanks!
Mary Elizabeth O'Connor Thank you so much for your comment Mary! I’m so pleased the videos help. And well done on closing the Google tab! That is the first step to recovery so you should be very proud!
Thank you so much for posting this its literally like listening to my own situation. I'm in the exact same situation, and I don't even have symptoms when I diagnose myself on google. Its ruining my life and google is the culprit
Really helped me thank you so much 🙏
Eduardo Carranza You are so welcome and I’m so pleased to hear that it helped!
Thanks your awesome😍
google has taken over and ruined my mental health. it all started last summer when the left side of my neck swelled up. went down after antibiotics. then, around my 18th birthday, the left side of my throat started to hurt and boom i thought i had an undiagnosed cancer. surprisingly, after distracting myself, the symptom went away and never came back. this cycle is on and off with every little body sensation i feel. i've been convinced i had oral cancer, CSF leak, brain tumor, esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, skin cancer, and lymphoma. now, i'm worried about bowel cancer, and the odds are so little due to my age and family history. it's ruining my mood. but, weird enough, whenever i ignore my symptoms and distract myself (like being w my friends), i feel normal. everything is fine afterwards until my subconscious thoughts take over and i go back on google. and oh goodness, those forums freak me out.
Hi there did you get test done like the blood test and stool test
I'm currently going through same
As you
Hi there have you got tests done like blood test and stool test
Cause I'm going through sane as you I'm only 17
@@hash-gamer3542 i had two blood counts done and both came back normal. saw a lot of blood in my shit yesterday but it was large
i just want to say you are truly helping me i was convinced i had als but your video really helped 🙂
Elevate Son I am so pleased to hear that the video helped and I’m sorry to hear that you’re going through this fear. It really is awful!
Cameron Guns I’m going through the same scare. I get muslce twitches all a perfect my body. I haven’t been able to eat for a week because I just can’t swallow anything. My doctors say it’s GERD, I’ve lost a lot of weight and muscle because I haven’t been able to eat, I get chest pains and it hurts to breathe sometimes and google is my worst enemy. I get so anxious and freak out cuz everything I type in has something to do with anxiety. Watching this really helps ease my symptoms as well as spending time in the word. I have noticed symptoms starting to slowly fade so I have faith . Especially since I’m only 21 and have always been very healthy. But stay off google! Anxiety has a way of giving you symptoms of your worst fears!
OMG I have a cough and constantly I’m like it’s lung cancer it’s lung cancer. Even though my mom who is a nurse told me it’s just a small chest infection I can’t get it out my head.
So much appointments so much doctors they tell me I’m healthy and I’m in denial
I watched a lot of your videos and it's helped me to know that others feel as I do (I am sorry for your anxiety though!). I have been going through some abdominal issues that have been all clear from CT scans, to colonoscopies and blood tests but the discomfort is still there. Doctors say it's IBS, but here I am googling every night after feeling weird pains in my chest or headaches that make me super anxious about what's going on with me. My anxiety keeps me up at night and I have a hard time sleeping...always fearing the worst because of what I see on google. Thanks for making these videos! I wish the best for your anxiety!
I realize this post is a year old but I'm currently going through some abdominal issues. If you dont mind me asking what were yours like?
@@sikrandall83 Hey! I am still getting it from time to time. I've had two CT scans, a colonoscopy, digestive tests and full blood workup and all were negative. Mine feels like a dull pain right underneath my most bottom rib and occasionally around my mid section near my belly button. I feel it gets worse sometimes with my health anxiety and I'm trying to see if it's the food or drinks I drink that cause it. Maybe a case of IBS but I don't have really any digestive issues so it's so hard to diagnose and makes my anxiety go into overdrive.
@@arron5455 i appreciate the response and I can say you pretty much described exactly my situation. I get this nagging little dull pain underneath my bottom rib and the ones near the belly button. Usually on my right side, not exclusively....but the majority of the time. I haven't had any ct scans, but I've had an ultrasound, upper gi endoscopy, chest x-rays, several rounds of blood work, and in the next 2 weeks a colonoscopy as well as a contrast dye x ray. They want to use the contrast dye to check my gallbladder even though it came up fine in an ultrasound. Leaving no stones unturned just in case though all tests so far have been fine. My personal Dr leans towards ibs also, but the specialists want to test and make sure.
@@sikrandall83 Yup, that sounds just like mine. I forgot to mention I also had an ultrasound and xray and it came up negative so it's good to hear that you are leaving no stone unturned. It is very annoying more than painful, but always having it there is always concerning to me. Even now as I right this, I can feel it on my left side which is really frustrating. I hope all of your tests still come up negative, but that you can find some sort of answer to get through it. We are both young (35 is youngish for me lol) but I don't want to always have this pain forever so I am hoping to keep trying things to get rid of it. Again, it is so frustrating as you know.
@@arron5455 oh yeah, makes for very long days just thinking about it on a loop. Im 36, so im youngish too I guess lol. But atop all the anxiety I do want to just be proactive with my preventative Healthcare as well
I fell into this the last year. My mom had to tell me to get off Google. Also a lot of bs websites online and on youtube there to bait people to get advertising views. Especially the home remedy videos. Most don’t work.
I literally googled my ringing in one ear (mind you I had migraine and was just exhausted and experiencing a lot of anxiety) and convinced myself I had a brain tumor even though my neurologist (who has had me for 17 years) just did an eeg and tests that all came back clear for my ALS Fear . I just hate google. But one good thing google taught me was an eeg can detect a brain tumor because brain tumors cause slower brain waves most of the time. Health anxiety is so hard because once I got over my ALS fear I got the brain tumor scare. Even my boyfriend who reassures me I have always had trouble with my words and am very forgetful by nature and that he gets ringing in one ear all the time, I just cant believe it.
I also just started going to a ENT for my ear cause I feel something is wrong but what is eeg
I'll start by saying that I started dealing with anxiety 6/7 months ago.
I had an accident 2 years ago and it got me to bump my head. It wasn't severe, it hurted for like 3 days but the doctors told me it was nothing (they didn't really check). 4 days ago I felt the same pain I felt the day after the accident and I immediately freaked out. Obviously what I did was searching on the internet and the first thing I see is "a trauma can be deadly after years"! It complitely ruined my night out. The day after the pain was gone, but 2 days after until yesterday my head started to hurt and now I'm freaking out! I'm pretty sure it can be anxiety and if my doctor says it's nothing I could not believe him.
I'm so scared😭
(Sorry for any mistake)
Thanks so much for this video it was spot on me what do u do to help?
Well I gotta say the internet is a scary place some information can be inaccurate or wrong I’m struggling right now but I’m gonna try recover
my problem about my health anxiety is believing about my symptoms are okay, nothing serious going on, doctors can make mistakes (very rarely) i used to go down to the gp practice nearly every week a few years, mainly to do with worrying about my testicles , or something rare like penile cancer as I found something I was worried about , I was focus on bowel cancer for nearly two years , and had tests, exams etc. all what was found was a small non cancerous common pouch which I may had since birth from what my specialist told me. the same for my testicles I had ultrasound the specialist could not feel the lump what my gp founded, so he sent me for an ultrasound just to ease my mind. turned out i had three cysts
were they cancerous?
using forums is a big no no , I have fell in this trap.
and some forums scare you even more so. like cancer research forum,
The only time I been right so far, is when I had a tooth abscess a few years ago, as I knew the taste in my mouth as I had one years before.
Geogle have destroyed me
Thank you for your videos 🤣 i literally use these as my therapy by replaying most of them everyday ... Dont mind my comments lol
I searched on google ear ringing and it said I had schziophrena (i dont know how to spell it) it turns out that it was an air conditioner that made weird noises ;~; But im still worried :"( whY mUst it be that way **cries**
subscribe and I binge watch your videos please never stop making them 😖❤️
I honestly am so worried that I’m going to have a brain aneurysm every second of the day...that I have physical symptoms. I feel like I’m trapped in my brain and I don’t know what to do. I don’t hear anyone talking about brain aneurysm anxiety...that’s not just me is it? I honestly am so worried.
What is your symptoms?
Hi so i have these weird spots on my body my mom has them too and my whole family but i’ve don research on google and i saw that it could be leukemia i was literally shaking when i read that i was perfectly fine before i read that, since then i’ve been having this weird feeling in my throat and i wanted to scream and i kept looking on google and i am just so scared of going to the doctor because I don’t want to hear the bad news do you have any advice?
I also started to think about the symptoms and then i was like feeling i had them i really don’t know what to do
lmaooo im in this phase right now too, i have red spots appearing and disappearing in my arms or legs then dr google just said its leukemia. how are you right now though? have you moved on from the fear or you’re still in one?
@@biblelovergirl i can’t say i moved on i’m still scared but things got better then they were 4 months ago i felt alone and scared, i went to the docter she said it was something innocent called cherry angioma’s. Please don’t listen to google it could be so many other things google just shows the bad diseases
@@biblelovergirl and i got the symptoms because of stress, i’m good now and i only get scared if i think about the disease or when someone talks about it
@@skskksk-7550 great to hear that its nothing. idk if mine is the cherry angioma thing or petichia and apparently the petichia one is “leukemia”, i saw a listed reasons from google as to why i might have it and the one that stuck to me is leukemia. i just hope i get over this intrusive thought as you did
Dr Google has diagnosed me with so many different diseases and disorders😑🤦🏻♂️
Same 😤😔
@Sonicthewerehog 2003 For me, it was only mental illnesses, epilepsy, Acid reflux and hearing loss o.o
Headaches = brain tumor 😑...fuc.ing health anxiety
Google is not very nice
🤣🤣🤣 yesssssss!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi cherelle how you hope you well, sorry to msg you like this on youtube however , i dont have instagram either so theres no way of me getting in touch with you. Just wanted to tell you that i dropped a few things two days back and now i have this constant fear that am dropping this because i have als however now i keep trying to hold on to things tightly just to make sure i dont drop anything, did you ever experience anything like this?
Magenta Research thank you so much really appreciate it
Magenta Research how did you do it and get out of it because its like i have become a prisoner in my own mind, and everything that happens i tend to just think its the worst
Magenta Research sorry lol i jst changed my name for fun, however i am from Africa, and my issues all
Started last year this time, omg it started with widespread pain throughout my body, then i went to every doctor nd took all medication nothing helped then issues started getting worse and i was also constantly googling, ringing in my ears, pain everywhere, headaches , dizziness, feel like am walking off balance, feeling like my legs are giving up on me, muscle twitching everywhere in my body face and tongue, not being able to sleep,facial pain, jaw
and clicking, now i get the feeling of food being stuck in my throat everytime i eat , i do have acid reflux however i think its the als wher i wont be able to swallow, am just sooooo scared i cant function have you ever delt with anything like this? And jazakAllah do much for ur reply
Magenta Research thank you so much, how did you get rid of ringing in ur ears or did you just get used to it? Do you also get muscle twitching in your face and tongue cause that also makes me feel i have als, sorry am asking so many questions but am so happy that i have found am not alone and i can relate to someone
Magenta Research that is very very true like last night i was googling because i needed to know what could be causing this food stuck in my throat and all it said was a neurological disease and als and all that i hadnt googled for ling but this is going on for a month so i was like i have to google to see, worst mistake cause i couldnt sleep, did you ever have facial pain as you mentioned earlier you thought you had neuralgia
can a 14 year old get colon cancer ?
why would you think you have colon cancer?
I went to the neurologist about a week and a half ago. And he told me that i do not have MS according to my MRI. And that none of my symptoms are from MS. And i told him that i have searched and actually all of my symptoms are from MS. He got angry basically showed no concern. So i asked him for a MRI OF my thoracic spine because there can be lesions there. And he said NO WAY. And he ordered a lumbar spine mri to look for a herniated disc 😒. This would be fine if the symptoms were only in my legs but they are NOT. But he doesnt want to do a thoracic spine mri and i feel like i wouldn’t be relieved until i get that mri of my thoracic spine.
Jose Tavarez Hello! Thanks for the update! Sorry to hear that you didn’t get the test that you wanted. This has happened to me a few times and it got me really upset! Is there another neurologist that you could see that could possibly perform the test you need to get to the bottom of this?
Cherelle Thinks ill talk to my primary next week to see if he can schedule one
@@raytvrz92 Hi. Ask your dr for a referral letter and go private. Money is paper your health is more then paper.
KyzerGB thank you.. will do 🙏🏻
@@raytvrz92 hey, any updates ?????? how are you ! what symptoms did you have ?
I hate gooooogggle
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Jay What’s those eyes for? 😂
Cherelle Thinks no idea 😏
You had a newborn baby?
Daaaamn... You look only 21!
Ha! I’m 28 with two children :)
@@cherellethinks wish you and your children sound health and prosperous life