About this episode

This episode explores the implications of the internet acting as a nervous system, focusing on self-diagnosis culture and health anxiety.

Sometimes life throws something really big or hard at us and we believe we need help ASAP. So obviously, you text your therapist or find a psychic, right?!? Jk. But Claire did hire a psychic once and we haze her accordingly. Something else is happening though when we don’t give ourselves a bit of breathing room for our nervous system to settle and regulate…we take to the internet. What happens when the internet becomes your nervous system? This episode explores self-diagnosis cul...

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Hosts: Laura Quick, Claire Fierman

Topics covered

• self-diagnosis culture
• algorithmic reinforcement
• health anxiety
• therapy speak
• psychological effects of internet consumption

Keywords

• internet
• nervous system
• self-diagnosis
• health anxiety
• therapy speak
• mental health
• algorithmic reinforcement

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