a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.....have you heard that before? Med students when they first start get all kinds of illnessess..fake ones.......but after doing all that studying on disease etc they wind up coming down with half of them..none of them real...all in the mind....

We now can research anything we want...can be good or can be bad and then we obscess about it till we are convinced we are dying.... and we are not

I've done that too...you are not unusual.........how can you get away from that...maybe by being around more people and getting out more. When I am alone and stay in my apartment I tend to worry much more. When I am out and engaging in converstion with friends or whatever, I forget about myself and things seem more realistic... and then I stop that worrying about every little thing on my body.

Hope this helps a little. Are you a hypochodriac.... I don't know....

thanks for the post though. It shows that you think this behavior is not so normal or healthy for you.......