I probably should not be out there…

This is in response to Seaneen’s last post. “The internet told me…”
Started as a comment, but became too long to be posted in a little box.

So, basically the post is about how awesome the internet is, but how misleading it can be if you try to take it as if it were your doctor. I’ve been living it with my dad lately. He’s been spending his free time in google looking for whatever symptom he has had at any point of time and associating it with everything he reads. He has nothing serious, confirmed by doctors, studied by me, his med intern daughter. He’s still obsessing, has come up with all kinds of cancers, weird autoimmune disorders and even some that would never happen with his y chromosome.

I don’t think he’s even an hypochondriac. He just has found a massive amount of information, and has let himself gotten a little carried away. Woudln’t you?

Anyway, Seaneen goes on to refer especifically to mental disorders, and decided to play the game of letting the dr internet tell you what you have, the result is EVERYTHING and NOTHING. From a person who has had professional input on her mental disorder, it’s easier for her to see how biased these quizzes are, however there are gazillions of people out there taking them seriously.

OK, just for the hell of it, I’m taking some of the quizzes she took, jsut to make a comparison OR more, because I have lots of time in my hands right now and don’t know what to do with it.