ISSN: 2265-6294

Cyberchondria and its Relationship to Health Anxiety

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Ranya Abdulkarim Sahan,Ahmed Latif Jasim

Abstract

Cypercondrea can be described as excessive or frequent use of the Internet to reduce stress or health anxiety, leading to further deterioration of existing symptoms that determine a behavioral, emotional, and cognitive pattern, resulting from excessive distress or anxiety associated with an individual's health as a result of misinterpretation of their physical sensations and the consequent belief that he is ill. Recently, excessive search for health-related information on the Internet has been accompanied by an increasingly widespread health concern among adult Internet users. It is associated with worrying thoughts and feelings about health. If anxiety intensifies, it can stop research or quite the contrary, it can lead to more online research, and the associated psychological stress of fear of getting sick, or fear of transmitting infections to others, general anxiety, feeling helpless to protect oneself, and feeling depressed, lonely and negative impacts.

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