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cyberchondria
Cyberchondria is the unfounded escalation of concerns about common symptomology based on review of search results and literature online.〔 Articles in popular media position cyberchondria anywhere from temporary neurotic excess to adjunct hypochondria. Cyberchondria is a growing concern among many healthcare practitioners as patients can now research any and all symptoms of a rare disease, illness or condition, and manifest a state of medical anxiety.
== Derivation and use ==
The term "cyberchondria" is a portmanteau neologism derived from the terms cyber- and hypochondria. (The term "hypochondrium" derives from Greek and literally means the region below the "cartilage" or "breast bone.")〔''Oxford English Dictionary'' #rd Ed. (2003)〕 Researchers at Harris Interactive clarified the etymology of cyberchondria, and state in studies and interviews that the term is not necessarily intended to be pejorative.
A review in the ''British Medical Journal'' publication ''Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry'' from 2003 says cyberchondria was used in 2001 in an article in the United Kingdom newspaper ''The Independent''〔(P. Vallely, Independent "Are You a Cyberchondriac?" April 18, 2001 )〕 to describe "the excessive use of internet health sites to fuel health anxiety." The BBC also used cyberchondria in April, 2001.〔 The BMJ review also cites the 1997 book from Elaine Showalter, who writes the internet is a new way to spread "pathogenic ideas" like Gulf War syndrome and myalgic encephalomyelitis.〔Showalter, Elaine. Hystories: hysterical epidemics and modern media. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.〕 Patients with cyberchondria and patients of general hypochondriasis often are convinced they have disorders "with common or ambiguous symptoms."〔〔BARSKY, A.J. AND KLERMAN, G.L. (1983). Overview: hypochondriasis, bodily complaints, and somatic styles. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140: 273-283〕
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