I have convinced myself I am not normal. This is just two of the reasons on my list. I don’t like to read Obituaries any longer… either there is someone I know or someone my age. I spend time looking online trying to find out how they passed. Is this normal? Doubt it. I also use the internet to self diagnosis myself all the time. That freckle on my foot is melanoma, the aspartame in Diet Coke is giving me Lupus, I also have ultraviolet dermatitis because of the Lupus, and I must have appendicitis because my right side has been hurting. WHO does this?? Would I still be this way without the convenience of the internet? Would I spend long hours in the library researching my ailments? I am not paranoid or scared of getting sick. I am scared of my kids being raised without a mother, the doctors missing the clues, and my little tummy ache turning out to be hyperplastic hypersecretory gastropathy. I have been very healthy, my entire life, so the fact that I’m obsessed with diagnosing myself makes absolutely no sense.
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I do the same thing, but also with medicine. I'll look up the drug interactions even after the doctor tells me it's ok to take them together. He told me to stay off the internet!
I don't reasearch and diagnose but I worry over the thought of dying of cancer or being killed somehow and leaving my hubby and kids to pick up the pieces! I hope that is normal but if not we are both abnormal together!!
I am SO glad you are blogging!!!! I am going to add you to my sidebar so I can keep up!!!
I do the same thing in both categories. I usually don't believe my self diagnosis but I like to feel informed.
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