729: Cyberchondria Dr. Google and Anxiety Listener Q and A
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2021
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina answers a listener question about health anxiety and searching the internet for the answers to health concerns. The phenomenon of cyberchondria is defined and many solutions or best practices are provided to help provide some relief from this distressing behavior.
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| 0:31.0 | Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels! |
| 0:40.0 | But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business. |
| 0:45.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill. |
| 0:51.0 | On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back. |
| 0:55.0 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 0:57.0 | Search zero with an axe, because healthy business is beautiful business. |
| 1:08.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD, |
| 1:15.0 | sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 1:18.0 | Hello, how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 1:28.0 | In today's episode I want to talk about Cyber-Condria, Dr. Google and Anxiety by reading a listener question and answering it. |
| 1:39.0 | An interesting question came in from one of our listeners, and she brings up a really common challenge with anxiety, |
| 1:47.0 | and that is when we are feeling like we need health reassurance or medical information that we immediately run to Dr. Google. |
| 1:58.0 | It's a problem, and it's very common. It has become so prevalent that it's been coined as Cyber-Condria. |
| 2:07.0 | Well, I decided I wanted to look up where that term actually originated, and so a Google search for where the term originated gave me conflicting information. |
| 2:20.0 | So if a simple search like that is giving conflicting information, how can we rely on the information Google gives us for a more complex search such as the listener will bring up in her question? |
| 2:36.0 | So here's her email. |
| 2:38.0 | Hi, Gina. I'm an avid listener of your podcast for the last three or four years. |
| 2:44.0 | I thoroughly enjoy listening to all of your advice and have benefited from your strategies. |
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