Thanks guys.

[conuly]

Do you know how easy it is to go jumping right off the deep end into medical paranoia?

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Comments

[randomdreams]

This is why the internet was invented. Some people say porn was the motivation, but, really, poor self-diagnosis via scary online anecdotes is definitely the main reason the internet stands as tall as it does. (Stop slouching! Your back will freeze that way!")

[shadowkat]

When ill? Do not go on the internet -- it's a bevy of misinformation and paranoia.

[conuly]

Siiiiiiiigh.

[conuly]

I thought it was faces that froze that way.

[randomdreams]

And eyes from squinting.
I bet there are other things, too.

[randomdreams]

Oooh don't forget crossing your eyes and them getting stuck that way!

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

Do you know how easy it is to go jumping right off the deep end into medical paranoia?

Oh, yes.

[conuly]

Despite all this, and the fact that collectively my mother's family presents as one person with a disorder, I still think it falls into the broad category of "nothing diagnosible".

[greghousesgf]

I thought the "old timey ways of saying nonsense" article was amusing. I definitely remember the name "Betty Martin" showing up in some dumb song we had to sing in music class when I was in elementary school. (did anyone besides me have to sing really dumb songs in music class none of us kids liked??)

[archersangel]

the only one of those old time ways of saying nonsense i've seen or heard was eye-wash. can't recall if i read it or heard it in an old movie.

[bibliofile]

The traveling to work article was interesting but only in a part-of-the-picture way. They're not taking into account the types of jobs and where they locate, and whether local transit schedules accommodate certain types of areas. I know tech companies that have situated downtown and also in the burbs -- and transit was definitely a factor. Light manufacturing and commercce (to use terms from SimCity) have other constraints. Rising real estate prices drove both out of the center of Chicago, for example.

re: online medical info
MayoClinic.org or nothing at all, if you can manage it. Else you end up like the poor sod in Three Men in a Boat, who discovers that he has every ailment in the book, except housemaid's knee. (And then he becomes indignant at not having housemaid's knee.)

[gale_storm]

Do you know how easy it is to go jumping right off the deep end into medical paranoia?

Yes. Oh, yes, I do, and the gravity of gravitas, too.

[workday_dreamer]

Re: the Trump doctored photos thing, the future is fucking wild! I'm sure the generations of tomorrow will automatically doubt every photo or video they see what with that, the computer-generated faces thing, and the increasingly common use of digital touch-ups/de-aging in most modern movies, but it makes my head spin now in the present.

Also, every time I'm reminded how incredibly vain and insecure that man and his family are, it gives me the creeps. Mostly because that vanity/insecurity is clearly having an effect on the decisions he makes in his globally important job that will have ramifications for decades to come. He's like an actual historical king, with the pettiness and the badly managed mental issues!

[thewayne]

Guy missing half my immune system here - Trust me - yes, I know!

[conuly]

Half?

[conuly]

I think most kings were a little less unstable, or at least a little better managed.

[conuly]

Hah, my grandmother had a neighbor who was a hypochondriac, and apparently somebody once gave her a book of diseases. Why they'd do that I don't know, but they did. One day the woman called my grandmother very upset and declared she knew what she had. It was some disease with no symptoms at all.

[conuly]

I liked the songs, but I don't know if anybody else did.

[workday_dreamer]

Yeah, and most kings weren't buddy-buddy with a foreign king to the point of betraying their own kingdom. Royal ego, if nothing else, generally got in the way.

[bibliofile]

It ran away to join the circus.

[bibliofile]

LOL omg that's hilarious.

[greghousesgf]

they may not have been the same songs.

[thewayne]

Just half, the other half (T-cells) seems to do OK.  My wife and I are kinda sorta professionally paranoid hypochondriacs when it comes to some aspects of my health.

My health crashed in 2009 when I had pneumonia five times in seven months, turned out my body stopped producing antibodies.  I'm going to be doing a long post regarding it in 3 weeks or so.