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Symptom searching and online triggers
Looking up symptoms or reading illness stories can feel like a way to get certainty. For many people with health anxiety, that search briefly calms fear and then feeds the next wave of checking.
These articles focus on the search-and-check pattern and on practical boundaries with health information online.
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