tori likes to yell and stuff

We all know what they are- those little quizzes you find on myspace or whatever that has you fill out questions and then they tell you what disorder you have.  It is so bogus, and even if you think of it as just a little game, there are tons of reasons why it’s just slowly making you believe you are a sociopath.

After taking it, you see that you scored “Very High” in the sociopath section. You know you aren’t a sociopath, but you think “Oh, i guess I have sociopathicl  tendencies. Weird.”   After awhile, you start to start excusing your behavior on the “fact” that “you have sociopathic tendencies.  Then, when you are sad or angry or just not in your best mood, you start to blame it on “being a sociopath”.

What I’m getting at, is that it will make you eventually think you are in fact a sociopath, even though you are basing it off of a bogus “diagnosis” and probably don’t even understand the characteristics and symptoms of sociopathy.

I learned today that there is actually a medical term for  being a hypochondriac due to the internet… Cyberchondria.   The biggest problem in my mind about cyberchondria is that not only does that person think they have a disease that they most likely don’t, its that they start to adjust or exaggerate symptoms that belong to the disease they think they have.  This goes for not only mental illnesses, but medical ones as well.  The huge problem with that is that if you truly believe you are suffering from something, you will trick yourself into having the symptoms whether they really exist or not. You start to actually feel these symptoms.  And you end up wasting money and doctor visits thinking you have Lyme disease but really you just have the flu.