What’s Really Behind Your Obsessive Symptom-Googling

Cyberchondria is real. And largely unhelpful.

Dr. Furaha Asani
Elemental
Published in
4 min readSep 4, 2020

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For those who live with hypochondria, myself included, this pandemic has added layers to our concerns around health. Many of us have spent hours Googling risks and symptoms. And as science has revealed more information about the virus and illness, some of it comforting (it’s probably not foodborne)…

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Dr. Furaha Asani
Elemental

Migrant. Postdoctoral researcher. Teacher. Mental Health Advocate. Writer. Professional in the streets, loud on the sheets of paper.