Breaking the 2 AM medical spiral - All about symptoms inflicting fear and explain what goes on in your mind and how you react
The Dr Maya Way by Health, Happiness and the Forgotten Wisdom of Self-Understanding
Episode notes
Do you expect the same neat process for your body? You type in Why Does My elbow hurt? You expect a list of stretches and then you expect to just go to sleep. But that is almost never what actually happens when it comes to medical queries. That transactional nature completely shatters the moment you hit enter. It really does. You step through this digital looking glass. Into the reality of the 2:00 AM Internet spiral. Ohh, the 2:00 AM spiral. We've all been there, right? Suddenly, that simple recipe search is gone. You're scrolling through forums, clicking on increasingly alarming links, and within like 15 minutes, your mild headache has just been diagnosed by an algorithm as a rare. Incurable condition, and your heart rate is up, you're sweating, and sleep is just completely off the table.
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