Inescapable!

Further to my drivelous post of yesterday...

Hypochondria. Don't know what it is? Google it! Don't know something - just Google it.
Feeling like shyte? Google your symptoms and make you own diagnosis! Anything you want to know is a mere few keystrokes away, what's not to love about that?! Should be great shouldn't it, but there are times when it isn't.

Hypochondria - a health anxiety/ phobia / mental illness where a person has excessive preoccupying concerns for his or her health depite there being no presence of a medical condition. Kind of explains ME! except, what if I pass it off as the anxiety and there really is something wrong? Gah.
True to the nature of Hypochondria where the health concern is typically limited to a particular 'issue', sometimes 2, Mine is the big C.

The problem? It's inescapable! I can do everything I possibly can (and I'd like to think I am) and still not escape it! I can improve my diet but that doesn't stop it from entering the mind! If the mind itself is a very pervasive tool, the media is probably moreso! Somebody of notable popularity dies of the big C, & it's on the news - hour after hour after hour - then it's on TV!!!!! Pick up a magazine & there it is nestled in the glossy pages of galloping gossip. Borrow a fab book from the library just to have it turn to crap at page 453. No radio, no TV, no magazines, no interweb, no fictitious Chick-Lit. Oh, no socialising either just incase someone refers to someone else who has/had it. Pretty hard to escape it when you look at it like that! and time to find a new hobby too!