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Originally Posted by WEG Cory
He hates the Internet. He thinks the Internet in combination with the Media has really created an anxious society. When I got tested a while back, I came in with a list of symptoms. I told him the symptoms were of HIV. He laughed. He pulled out a book and showed me a list of those same symptoms for many other issues. I asked him if I am crazy. He said I was, but it is becoming the norm. Now, add on most of the symptoms are me creating them with stress.
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This is so true, I know someone who is somewhat hypochondriac and the net is
fueling it. It's getting A LOT better because he goes to work so he has less time to be so obsessive. But when I first met him he was a major nutcase.
He used to visit this site :
http://www.actionlove.com everyday and read it for hours, he still does sometime. Just go to that website and read the nonsense, you won't BELIEVE what you are reading. And this person believes it's all true and would order medicine/vitamins from that place, $300 worth of crap sometimes!!
And then he would research in Google for HOURS and HOURS about diseases, and he would think he has most of them too. You should see his "favourites" folders, he has AT LEAST 1,000 bookmarks for all sorts of crazy medical crap. It is so long I cannot even scroll all the way down.
Oh yea, he also bought this
http://www.lin-institute.org/Merchan...t_Co de=0-003
from the quack docttor. It is a vacuum cup and he uses it to pull out "stagnated blood" in his body. When he is through his skin is all read and leaves bruises.
The net can be a dangerous place for the wrong people.
And then he uses words like "acetylcholine" like it's normal that he learned from the quackdoctor, and he would tell me he is low in acetylcholin or whatevers. And he believes from reading that site that excessive masturbation in causing him to die early. No joke!!