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Nowadays, cyberchondria is in everyone's hands, literally, you just need Internet and a phone to start looking for some symptoms and health information. Even if it comes from unreliable and outdated websites or from a trustworthy one, health information is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it is acknowledged that the Internet is a practical source of knowledge. You can find information about any topic just after a few clicks. What has always concerned the experts is that for years, the searches about health have been increasing. The main problem we have been struggling with is that the search engine is not qualified to answer any question about symptoms or medical treatment. That is the reason why the first results that will appear on your screen are the worst-case scenarios like cancer among other life-threatening illnesses. I think this is making everything worse for the cyberchondriac because they are using the information they find to make an auto-diagnosis. And the more they read, the more sure they are about having specific illnesses. Also, it is a well-known fact that the Internet is full of scare stories and alternative remedies. Both can be harmful to people that believe in those and try them in a desperate attempt to find a miracle cure to their illness. On the other hand, the Internet is such a useful tool for every subject in the world, not only the medical speciality. It is one of the handiest and helpful instruments that we have nowadays to use in pursuit of owning facts about whatever subject we are interested in. In addition to that, the Internet it’s useful to know more about an illness you have as well if you are studying medicine or a thing related to that. The more material you read, the more you learn about a topic. It is a matter of learning how to use it in a guarded way, assuring you qualified and reliable information while surfing the web. Not for auto-diagnosis but for things that could be more important than that. In conclusion, it is easy to find health information, but I don’t think this is a factor that makes it easy to become a cyberchondriac. Everybody knows what they do with the things that they read on the Internet. If we learn how to manage the amount of websites, articles and stories that we have available online, we would be able to know when to take it seriously and when they are just a giant number of Internet rubbish and fake stories. The more interested we are in the Internet and how to use it, the more aware we become of which websites, of the huge long list of results that are shown to us in every search, are useful and which ones are not reliable at all.