Internet search found symptoms of "AIDS"
2008-12-28 17:28:40
Morning (Reporter Dan)

"I'm going to die!" The day before yesterday, Mr. Wan Huanghuangzhangzhang into a psychological consultation, I am afraid that he had AIDS, traveled all the major hospitals in the city, a hospital can not check out. Psychologist patience to listen to Mr. Wan has been the talk after the discovery of his "root cause."

It turned out that not long ago, Mr. Wan had a dirty sex, did not take seriously, but a few days ago, Mr. Wan from the Internet occasionally to see a report on AIDS, think of his recent physical discomfort and quickly search the Web AIDS symptoms, and even its own does not have a lot of agreement, then Mr. Wan come up with a great deal of time every day searching the Internet and a variety of AIDS-related pages, the more we feel the more cf had AIDS. "Confirmed", Mr. Wan traveled all the major hospitals in the city, made all the relevant inspections are "non-pathological investigation," the result of the end. "I simply can not go to work, could not sleep all night, thinking about their own General feel in the end is really not a disease." Mr. Wan said.

Psychologist, Mr. Wan is suffering from a "network of imaginary disease." As more and more people are accustomed to the use of Internet search information, people tend to judge the data around the network, imagination and a very optimistic about the outcome of this is the "Network imaginary disease".

Internet reporter about the experience of Mr. Wan's "self-examination" process. Reporters with "symptoms of hepatitis" in the search for keywords on search engines, resulting in up to find the relevant pages as many as 2,860,000, a variety of medical, health, nutrition Web site has a description of the symptoms of hepatitis, some say the site looks Comparison of professional authority, some websites or forums is a very one-sided, and even contradictory.

Dalian Huang, deputy director of the Counseling Center, the state psychologist, said Liu Hongwei, the so-called "network imaginary disease" is in fact imaginary disease. In many cases, some people uncomfortable time trying to verify the symptoms, such as through the website to do the test so that their symptoms tend to come to the performance of the results, calling it "imaginary disease network." From a psychological point of view that in suggesting a high degree of psychological effect, become one of the narrow sense, will be more concerned about the exaggerated and those who do not feel comfortable, repeated impact of the formation of the spirit of interaction.

Liu Hongwei recommendations, not to over-reliance on the Internet related to the test, if indeed ill, should go to the hospital professional inspection. A08a



  
 
 
Source: Peninsula Morning News