Are you a cyberchondriac? How to tackle online health anxiety

Social media can be helpful if we have health concerns, but there’s a cohort of people for whom this is anxiety-inducing, says Geraldine Walsh

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Never before have we had such immediate access to health-related information. 

We increasingly use social media and the internet to seek out what we hope is appropriate evidence and information, to ease our pain and worries.