Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention

[howmanypizzas69]

Okay after an unplanned break I'm back with part two of Jess Paulsen d/b/a @kinghenryofnashville and @henryshandler.

Damn, good work. She might be one of the worst ones yet just for sheer ballsy ridiculousness, at least most of them try to seem a little sick for their followers with sad hospital pics and a lil port infection every once in a while for good measure. This is just a travel journal. She took what, 10 trips in 12 months? 12? Why not just fucking move to Florida? What does her husband even do that she can afford this? The mind boggles.

Extremely telling how the one time she actually started getting physically ill from trying to discontinue an SSRI she completely could not handle it at all. My eyes are rolling so far into my head they might get stuck.

Does she delete IG comments at all? I’m always curious if these girls get called out or criticized at all but it’s hard to tell if they’re just completely surrounded by the IG SD spoonie community bubble so no one calls them on their shit or if anything negative is just nuked right away

 

[Special spoonie]

Jess Cummin/thechroniciconic has notified the met police about her being talked on the Reddits. Shaking you guys.
That’s how we know the reddit account was her, didn’t want to say until got some sort of permission to.

 

[Yutyrannus]

DPMIW is bitching about how she definitely doesn't have an eating disorder and it's her sooper serious chronic illness that's made her skinny as a rail and fucked up her teeth. I actually feel nauseous looking at her nasty ass mouth.

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Is it just me or did her face blow up since the last pic of her posted? Is that what bulimia cheeks are?

 

[vanilla_pepsi_head]

DPMIW is bitching about how she definitely doesn't have an eating disorder and it's her sooper serious chronic illness that's made her skinny as a rail and fucked up her teeth. I actually feel nauseous looking at her nasty ass mouth.

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Oh for Christ's sake...

 

[elliptical narcissist]

It's more than grey, it's translucent.

Stomach acid has taken the enamel off.

 

[I hate children?]

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Jess Cummin/thechroniciconic has notified the met police about her being talked on the Reddits. Shaking you guys.
That’s how we know the reddit account was her, didn’t want to say until got some sort of permission to.

I hope she sends one of those useless things here . I am looking forward to another asshole learning the United States and it's citizens have no fucks to give about England , their laws or pleasing jackasses who act like Bees and this freak.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Damn, good work. She might be one of the worst ones yet just for sheer ballsy ridiculousness, at least most of them try to seem a little sick for their followers with sad hospital pics and a lil port infection every once in a while for good measure. This is just a travel journal. She took what, 10 trips in 12 months? 12? Why not just fucking move to Florida? What does her husband even do that she can afford this? The mind boggles.

Husband is a home loan officer. I posted his work history upthread. She posts a lot about how much she loves living in Nashville and I think she's telling the truth, but her posts at home were mostly mundane shit and dog training so I didn't include much of it. But i have several coming up who start with regular Disney trips and end up moving to Florida.

Trust me, they all get better from here on out. We haven't even hit our first confirmed Trevino patient. In the next few weeks I have one who might actually die from trevino-related issues before I get to post her, one who might be performing surgeries on herself, one who one-ups her severely disabled relatives by manufacturing crises of her own, one who is apparently giving herself chemical burns and overdoses to throw off tests, one whose "service dog" has a single hilarious task for a "disability" I have never heard any of them claim before and won't even perform that task reliably without coaxing with treats (and she paid professionals to train it!). . . over 20 individuals in all and nearly every one is more hilarious than the one that came before her. I have been monitoring all of them for months and was going to start posting in early March but when Disney closed several of them started undergoing wacky plot twists that I would never have even jokingly suggested they would actually go through with.

 

[Sammies#1Fan]

Husband is a home loan officer. I posted his work history upthread. She posts a lot about how much she loves living in Nashville and I think she's telling the truth, but her posts at home were mostly mundane shit and dog training so I didn't include much of it. But i have several coming up who start with regular Disney trips and end up moving to Florida.

Trust me, they all get better from here on out. We haven't even hit our first confirmed Trevino patient. In the next few weeks I have one who might actually die from trevino-related issues before I get to post her, one who might be performing surgeries on herself, one who one-ups her severely disabled relatives by manufacturing crises of her own, one who is apparently giving herself chemical burns and overdoses to throw off tests, one whose "service dog" has a single hilarious task for a "disability" I have never heard any of them claim before and won't even perform that task reliably without coaxing with treats (and she paid professionals to train it!). . . over 20 individuals in all and nearly every one is more hilarious than the one that came before her. I have been monitoring all of them for months and was going to start posting in early March but when Disney closed several of them started undergoing wacky plot twists that I would never have even jokingly suggested they would actually go through with.

Eagerly awaiting new Munchies, and also looking forward to the grand reopening of Disney because I want to play "spot the munchie" IRL.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Lol I haven't been on the subreddit in weeks but this just came through modmail. Thought it was funny since I'm preparing another post on IF's other munchie mod (or at least one of them), someone came to us asking to call of the dogs and it turned out she thought she was on IF and the complaint was about Party_Wurmple talking shit on someone who has cancer.

 

[self-diagnosed dumbass]

Thought it was funny since I'm preparing another post on IF's other munchie mod (or at least one of them)

Is there going to be a timeline on one of IFs munchie mods!? Oh KFS, you spoil us here.....

 

[Dorsia.Reservation]

one who might be performing surgeries on herself,

You sure know how to bring the munchie gold.

 

[hambeerlyingnreed]

Grey teeth can be caused by certain antibiotics in vitro or when you still have baby teeth, but this chick is under 30 so that probably isn't the cause since doctors try to restrict Tetracycline based antibiotics in pregnant women and young kids nowadays. She doesn't have signs of flouridosis either.

I'm not a dental professional, but am personally aware of things that can make teeth look less than pretty, and to me in her case it seems like she created her teeth issues herself. She even says her teeth issues are due to "vomiting"

 

[Blonde Bomb]

Grey teeth can be caused by certain antibiotics in vitro or when you still have baby teeth, but this chick is under 30 so that probably isn't the cause since doctors try to restrict Tetracycline based antibiotics in pregnant women and young kids nowadays. She doesn't have signs of flouridosis either.

I'm not a dental professional, but am personally aware of things that can make teeth look less than pretty, and to me in her case it seems like she created her teeth issues herself. She even says her teeth issues are due to "vomiting"

If I recall correctly, Gypsy Rose Blanchard's teeth were removed due to the medication she was on causing them to basically rot.

I also have a cousin who had a grey/black baby tooth that was because the nerves in it were dead. But his adult tooth under that one came in just fine.

Slight powerlevel, but my mother is (was) anorexic and it wrecked her teeth. Most of the damage was on the inner side of the teeth, but there was still visible damage on the outer side.

 

[Munchie safari]

Good evening farmers, I have been lucky enough to stumble upon a unicorn if you will: The elusive male munchie. And trust me, I can 100% verify that he is male due to the delightful photograph of his penis that he shared with us over reddit.

Meet Kyle Maclean, aged 26 and residing in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.


Twitter
Reddit

Sadly, I was unable to find a facebook account for him, although I did find his friends, family and his identical twin brother.

Our lovely male zebra claims POTS, a connective tissue disorder, MCAS, gastroparesis and most recently sjogrens and spends his time going to the ER for non-emergent matters, quizzing people about their symptoms, plaguing his poor GP and trying to gain access to testing and treatment without going through his doctor.

I will warn you all now, our story begins with a sizeable number of posts about his penis. I’m pretty much of the opinion that this is some sort of weird ass fetish blended with an unhealthy level of health anxiety with a sprinkle of straight up munching.

Spoiler: 2018: Beginnings

In June 2018, Kyle informs reddit that he has graduated with a degree in Public Health at Cape Breton University. He announces that he would like to become a health inspector but that this would require additional certification.



Mr. Inspector Kyle then makes a series of posts about dating apps. I very much enjoyed this wonderful entry whereby he announces that he is indeed a woman but his male “friend” is having issues.



We quickly learn that he most definitely isn’t a woman as Kyle proceeds to make 65+ threads about his fucking dick (and I stopped counting after that).

In October he posted this mildly amusing tweet about modern medicine.

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Spoiler: ”Other mildly amusing finds

Here is Kyle’s junior hockey player profile.

I also found this hysterical Human Rights Tribunal case (hello Yaniv). I cannot prove that this is exactly him but I can tell you that he was of the legal drinking age at the time and he has family in London, Ontario.

Quick summary: Kyle took a bar to the Human Rights Tribunal for discrimination due to women getting discounts on ladies nights. The tribunal didn’t rule in his favour.

Spoiler: February 2019: Are my haemorrhoids fatal?

On february 16th, Kyle informs reddit that his penis is numb in areas and that he thinks this may be a side effect of his antidepressant.



This sucks.

Numberwang goes on to disclose that he has an eating disorder and would like to get swole. This is the first and only time he mentions this. Sadly automod pulled the post before it could be archived so I have no further information on this.


Kyle "Numbnuts" Maclean goes to the ER for chest pain and gets his first EKG. It sounds like they cleared him as fine and told him to see his GP if he is still concerned. Numberwang laments that his hospital's Emergency Department is one of those pesky ones that only cares if you are having an emergency.


After a consultation with Dr. Google, Kyle determines that his chest pain is caused by his haemorrhoids and is annoyed that if he takes his lumpy arsehole to the ER, he will have to wait 8+ hours for medical attention.

Location: Anus


We then get a spree of more posts about his numb wang where some people tell him that this is a side effect of antidepressants. Others tell him that if his penis is numb, this is an emergency situation and he should definitely go back to the ER (despite the fact his symptoms have been ongoing for over a year at this point).

He leaves the ER on the 15th of February with his limp dick between his legs and a referral to urology and a blood test for his testosterone levels as doctors suspect he is a cuck.

On the 26th of February, he says that he made a second trip to the ER. He admits to watching a little too much pornography.

He creates another post on the 27th of February asking what he can wrangle out of the ER for testing because he couldn't possibly wait to see his GP or the urologist he was referred to despite having lived with symptoms for over a year.

Before he goes to the ER for his floppy dick a third time, on the 28th he consults with citizens from the next town over to see if he will have any luck there. He complains that they won't order any tests for his emergency erectile dysfunction (despite having bloodwork ordered and a referral put in to urology).

Sadly, he determines that ER doctors just don't give a shit about a numb penis.

Definitely red flagged as some sort of pervert with a fetish at this point.

So by the end of February 2019 we have had:
* 3 trips to the emergency room, 1 for chest pain and 2 for his numb peen (admitting the only reason he didn't go for his haemorrhoids is because he didn't want to wait for 8+ hours.)
* Blood work for testosterone, diabetes and thyroid levels
* An EKG
* A referral to urology

Spoiler: March-June 2019: The Dick Doctor

This section is almost entirely about the littany of issues he has with his genitals. There's a lot here and he repeats himself a lot as he waltzes around reddit telling everybody about how he can't get a stiffy. You probably won't miss out on too much if you skip this section,

Numberwang tells us how he suffered testicular torsion in 2015.

Dr. Google, esteemed urologist diagnoses him with "prostitis". He also admits to previously being prescribde flomax (Tamsulosin). Our dick obsessed munchie sure does have a long history of having doctors look at his dick.

Can somebody else put ice on their penis so they can compare notes with Kyle? He'd love to talk to you about it!


He admits that even though he's not wanking, he still wants to continue to watch porn.

Now his dick is bendy.

Doctors at the ER think this is all in his head.

He starts querying if he can go to London, Ontario's ER instead. The emergency rooms in Cape Breton won't even do an ultrasound on his penis! He describes his symptoms as worse and worse with every retelling despite admitting he has had these issues for over a year.

Testosterone was normal and he likes to wank with his "flaccid" penis. Lovely.

Kyle tells us he had an endoscopy on March 8th 2019 for his GERD and questions his doctor's advice because of the second opinion he got from Dr. Google.

Tries viagra, wants a nose job.

Manages to wrangle a urology appointment for Wednesday 13th of March. What happened to those long waiting times that justified all of the ER trips, Kyle?

Numberwang needs help breathing, mentions panic attacks.

Consults Dr. Google for diagnoses he can suggest to his urologist. Comes away from the appointment with antibiotics for prostatitis after he got his cock fondled. Decides the issue is actually a pelvic floor problem. Are pictures allowed?



Decides he needs to see a pelvic floor specialist.

Starts fishing for MS with a list of bizarre symptoms.

This lucky lady has no idea what she's getting involved with.

Numberwang admits he's seen plenty of other urologists before. Also, if anybody who knows Kyle is reading this, don't eat any frozen food at his house. He's constantly putting ice on his dick.

A commenter had this helpful piece of advice.


He has bad side effects on the antibiotic and eventually decides to stop taking it before consulting a doctor or completing the course.

He starts hunting for other treatments for his limp dick.

And yet despite all his issues still has no problem getting aroused.


Now into March, Kyle has spent a month straight of obsessively posting about his wang and there's truly no end in sight. Trust me: There is a light at the end of this long, floppy, haemorrhoid ridden tunnel.


Pretty sure this is still about his dick.

Here he admits he stopped taking the antibiotic. Remember this, we'll circle back to this again in 2020.

Admits to wanking too much.

Zinc makes his dick bigger.

Gains access to a pelvis floor therapist who unfortunately was unable to shove a finger up his arse like he wanted.

We're into May 2019 now and he's still obsessed with his penis. I found an account of his on a website about penis enlargement. I haven't screenshotted all of his posts here as after I'd taken 100 screenshots about his cock, I could no longer face taking any more. Trust me, you're not missing out on anything.


He graces us with a picture of his body with an overflowing bathroom bin that has definitely seen some horrors in its existence.
Around May the 5th, he participates on another forum about dicks. This website and the PEGym one both required registration to access posts. I chose not to create an account for this second website as I was pretty much sick of hearing about this guy's stiffy by this point. However, here is the front page of the website and the description of his post that comes up on google search.

If I have to read about his tight anal muscles, so do you guys.

This is likely something recommended by Pudendal Hope.

Jelqing is apparently a penis enlargment technique which involves "stretching" the penis. Also his penis is ropey. I don't know what he means by that and I'm fine with not knowing.

Falls on his dick and deforms his penis. He is told to go see a god damn doctor rather than consult the internet for advice (a recurrent issue we see throughout his munching).

Wants to go back on the flomax.

It's finally June 2019 and Kyle is now advising others on matters of the penis. He finally enlightens me as to what a hard flaccid actually is. Ignorance truly was bliss.

Looking into CBD. Doesn't get morning wood.

Lets us know he's seen multiple professionals for his pelvic floor now.

And finally, the penis saga draws to a close, Numberwang sets his interests on gastro. His endoscopy came back all clear several months ago and so our zebra turns back to doctor google for a GERD diagnosis.

Spoiler: July 2019: In GERD we trust

Despite telling us his endoscopy came back clear in early March, Kyle Curvywang Maclean has started to focus on a hiatal hernia which he intends to treat himself. Dr. Google has told him that he has LPR rather than GERD.

He starts fishing for surgery as he's decided his medication doesn't help.

Kyle is horrified to learn that he may not be a candidate for surgery after trying one entire medication for his reflux.
He pushes in his hernia and manages to cure himself. Perhaps this now will make him a candidate for that sweet sweet surgery. When a poster questions how his hernia was diagnosed, Numberwang is very light on the details and seems confused as to what testing he actually had.

Consults the internet over whether he should stop taking his nexium rather than talking to his doctor. Starts looking into the woo diagnosis of SIBO.

Numberwang is a gassy, limp dicked mess who urgently needs help from Dr. Reddit.

Kyle admits to having some anxiety (it's almost as if it's not normal to keep hitting up the ER over your numb penis). He doesn't want to go on any antidepressants because of the effect they have on his ineffectual dong. He stops taking nexium without talking to his doctor.

Numberwang believes his hiatal hernia is causing him anxiety and considers taking daily benzos. He talks about starting amitryptaline. Numbnuts is more concerned about being able to get hard than he is about these constant panic attacks. His girlfriend's patience is wearing thin.


Numberwang starts looking for answers for his gassy stomach and the overproduction of mucous. Still worried amitryptaline will make his dick worse.


After a month of symptoms, he lands on post nasal drip as an issue. After talking to another person he decides that he has been misdiagnosed and begins to self-treat LPR at home without a diagnosis.

Posters are confused by the inconsistent story and ask why Numberwang was prescribed medications without being given a diagnosis. Kyle admits he hasn't been diagnosed with anything which raises even more questions. Exasperated, the poster tells him he needs to see an ENT and get actual medical advice.

Spoiler: August 2019: Set phasers to munch

Alright folks, things really start to pick up now with the dick stuff long behind us.
He starts looking into treating his reflux problems at home.

Numberwang tells us he went to the ER in Sydney again but got dismissed as having anxiety (and likely misuing the emergency department again). He starts asking questions about Halifax ER again, hoping that they will see non-emergent cases. Commenters recognise him from his previous question on the topic and point out that he should really seek therapy. He confirms that he has had these symptoms for a year and a half and it most certainly is not an emergency. He goes on to ask the anxiety subreddit if his symptoms could be psychosomatic as his doctors keep telling him.

More trying to treat acid reflux at home.

He starts focussing on the hernia again and starts to believe that it is actually a heart problem. He returns to his post about Halifax ER and asks commenters for their personal recommendations. If you have time to pick and choose your ER, it's not an emergency.
He goes back to the ER and gets a chest x-ray (and possibly a scolding from the staff for coming to them with symptoms he's had for over a year). His symptoms are chalked up to anxiety again. He finally makes it to the subreddit for health anxiety and posts stating he is worried he is having an aortic aneurysm.

He still continues to refuse to believe that this is entirely psychological and begins looking for a medical reason why he may be anxious rather than seeking therapy or support for his evident psychiatric issues.

Numberwang then turns the munching up to 11 and starts posting in various health condition subreddits asking for them to diagnose him. He chooses to come off of his anxiety medication without consulting a doctor in order to treat his self diagnosed POTS. He also starts to question whether he has sjogrens.

Numberwang finds himself in the ehlers danlos subreddit because he is convinced he is at risk of an aneurysm despite being told by ER staff that he is fine.

Numberwang self diagnoses himself with POTS with an at home test. He's visibly underweight and has previously admitted to a past eating disorder so it wouldn't surprise me if this is an actual issue for him. The ER rule his electrolytes as fine and he is convinced that his POTS was triggered by... a panic attack? He talks again of weaning off of medication without actually talking to his doctor first.

He explains that he has a neurology appointment on the 21st of August (likely to investigate the numbness he keeps bringing up).

He starts querying hyper POTS (still not seen a doctor or received a diagnosis for this) and wants to know which medications he can take to address this. Again without consulting his doctor.

Kyle starts to suspect vEDS despite not having all of the symptoms and not consulting a doctor. He instead decides to ask those in the vascular EDS subreddit what their symptoms are.

Numberwang, I really don't think you should be coming off any medications that can be treating this anxiety.
Starts questioning whether he has an autoimmune condition.

He asks the neurologist about POTS but is told he needs to see a cardiologist. He admits he has not been diagnosed with POTS and that he has done a home "table" top test.

Tells the EDS subreddit he has symptoms on August 25th. No reports of dislocations or joint pain. Begins to query whether he has MCAS as well.

Numberwang successfully diagnosed himself as ginger

On August the 26th, he starts seeking a private genetic lab for Ehlers-Danlos testing without a referral as his GP will not refer him for testing. He states that he needs to have testing through the mail and is disappointed when the recommended lab requires a doctor referral. Commenters get angry at this point and accuse him of being a hypochondiac which he denies. He announces that he does have EDS despite his GP telling him that he doesn't have the symptoms and so he doesn't need a referall for testing. Commenters point out that if he does indeed have an EDS diagnosis, his doctor can refer him for additional testing.

On the same day, he starts asking the EDS subreddit what the most dangerous aspects of the condition are. He begins farming them for information on symptoms and procedures.

It's still August 26th and he makes another topic on the EDS subreddit stating that he wants genetic testing done through the mail without a doctor's referral. He rants about his GP who refuses to refer him for testing and continuously tells him he has anxiety. His family and friends are starting to pull away. He claims the reason he isn't diagnosed is because he lives in rural canada. He claims that he is allergic to everything and that he has hyperPOTS (still not been diagnosed with that either). He also refers to his beighton score as "passing with flying colours" which is pretty funny.

One poster kindly suggests he go see his vascular doctor (which he doesn't have as his conditions are all self diagnosed). He announces that he is getting a gallbladder ultrasound soon he intends to ask the poor tech to also investigate him for aneurysms.

Another who has evidently had enough of munchies confronts Numberwang on his shit, much to my delight.

Another poster questions why Numberwang wants to do this without going through his doctor. Numberwang insists this is due to long waiting times in Nova Scotia rather than due to the fact that his doctors, friends and family all keep laughing him out of the room.

Numberwang shows up 4 months after somebody has made a comment on the marfan's sub to ask for another internet diagnosis.


Numberwang starts munching for MCAS and asks if he can have the diagnosis without getting hives. He informs us that he has "probably" EDS despite not having a diagnosis or a referral. He also states that he has POTS despite still not having a formal diagnosis. His doctor tells him it's a 2 year waiting list and doesn't refer him (likely because his symptoms aren't considered enough to warrent a referral).


Starts looking for genetics tests for aneurysms. He links to this one.

He hits up the marfens subreddit and tells them his GP has ordered a holter monitor, an ultrasound (which is potentially the gallbladder one) and has referred to rheumatology in the hopes that indulging him will shut him the fuck up.

Spoiler: September 2019: Who needs doctors anyway?

Kyle struggles to see the difference between tests he wants and tests he needs and starts hitting up his nearby town for private clinics. He insists that his GP totally agrees with him but won't order the tests for some strange reason!

Can't be a proper munchie without acquiring the trifecta. He posts querying gastroparesis and informs another commenter that he's already been to the ER three times for his heart.


Frustrated at the lack of POTs experts, Numberwang wants to know if he can persuade a doctor to do a test under his instructions because medical school is overrated.

Wondering if he can score two diagnoses for the price of one.

Panic attacks caused my POTS.

Has neither the Marfans diagnosis nor hyperPOTS but is looking for treatment he can request.

Looking for diagnoses in every single normal human function.

Has managed to score an MRI and reckons he has craniocervical instability. Starts farming commenters for what that might feel like. When he notes that he isn't in significant pain he states that this is "lame". Then he comes back to the conversation 5 months later to get more information. This is a huge pattern of his. Throughout his history, he comments on people months after they have posted to find out more about their symptoms, the testing and what treatments he should be asking for.

He returns to the poster he discussed LPR with and tells them he suspects he has EDS.

He questions a poster two months after they mention they have vEDS trying to determine where he can get the test himself.

Returns back to his Sjogrens post to ask if an ANA test will tell him if he has it.

Back to questioning CCI



More MCAS



Chronic lyme comes into play and Kyle starts to look for a lyme literate doctor.

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I've started to hit my character limit so I'll pick this back up with a part 2 and 3 over the next few days. This munchie is one hell of a ride and I look forward to sharing the rest of my timeline with you all.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Good evening farmers, I have been lucky enough to stumble upon a unicorn if you will: The elusive male munchie. And trust me, I can 100% verify that he is male due to the delightful photograph of his penis that he shared with us over reddit.

Meet Kyle Maclean, aged 26 and residing in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada.

snip snip

You know. I always thought i wanted more male munchies, just for the variety.

I do not. I will take a dozen 24 year old basic white chicks with golden retrievers and infected feeding tube stomas any day before i read that much about a broken dick again.

Yet I also desperately want to hear the water cooler gossip in his local hospital.

 

[elliptical narcissist]

Yeah, that was enough broken dick for today.

Seems like I saw yesterday in one of the new timelines at the sub that someone claimed their POTS was caused by a panic attack or something totally unrelated like that. Was it Nina Jean? There have been so many new timelines I'm losing track.

This guy has about the worst case of health anxiety I've ever seen. He doesn't need an anxiolytic, he needs an antipsychotic.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Yeah, that was enough broken dick for today.

Seems like I saw yesterday in one of the new timelines at the sub that someone claimed their POTS was caused by a panic attack or something totally unrelated like that. Was it Nina Jean? There have been so many new timelines I'm losing track.

This guy has about the worst case of health anxiety I've ever seen. He doesn't need an anxiolytic, he needs an antipsychotic.

I may be mistaken but I was under the impression that in true severe health anxiety they're irrationally worried The Thing is true, sometimes to the point of being afraid to talk about it lest they speak it into existence, but a test showing they do not have The Thing will calm the anxiety over it because they desperately do not want it to be true. Ex: find a lump on their breast and silently obsess over it being cancer until "good news, just a fibroid!" and then they no longer worry it's cancer. This dude is told over and over there's nothing wrong with him, his results are normal, the little blips he's focusing on are nothing of significance, and just refuses to accept it.

there has got to be a fetish aspect to this. Like, dude's obsessed with his dick and making other people look at it closely. This is like the medicalized version of sending dick pics to every woman you make eye contact with.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

I may be mistaken but I was under the impression that in true severe health anxiety they're irrationally worried The Thing is true, sometimes to the point of being afraid to talk about it lest they speak it into existence, but a test showing they do not have The Thing will calm the anxiety over it because they desperately do not want it to be true.

Yeah. tbh oncologists are bad about the hypochondriasis.

Cough? That's lung cancer. Diarrhea? That's colon cancer.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Yeah. tbh oncologists are bad about the hypochondriasis.

Cough? That's lung cancer. Diarrhea? That's colon cancer.

Oh god, it's WebMD in real life.

semi-related aside, I don't know how true this is and I'm sure it was wildly oversimplified because "god bless her, she's in the humanities," but someone told me that we all get mutant potentially cancerous cells every day and it's only sloppy internal housekeeping that lets it turn from a couple of genetic typos into a disease. Thinking of it in terms of how many millions of time your body did its job right is a lot more comforting than stressing about the one time it might fuck it up. And it makes people like "cancer survivor" Sarah Jean look like even bigger jackasses, which is very satisfying.

 

[elliptical narcissist]

I may be mistaken but I was under the impression that in true severe health anxiety they're irrationally worried The Thing is true, sometimes to the point of being afraid to talk about it lest they speak it into existence, but a test showing they do not have The Thing will calm the anxiety over it

Yes, you're right. Avoiding talking about it or even avoiding getting it looked at because what if I do have The Thing.