Lately my hypochondriac leanings have caused me worse anxiety than usual, and after cutting myself off from entertaining a visit to WebMD, naturally my brain tells me to consult other pockets of the internet to weed out some creative new worst case scenario self diagnoses.
Reddit has become the new playground, where I’ll be sure to find countless posts of people dealing with the same thing. The solidarity feels super helpful in some ways, but I take it too far by obsessing over everyone else’s accounts of their experiences and comparing them to my own, then start drawing false conclusions about what that could mean for my slightly different experience. 2 hours later and I’ve gone down a rabbit hole and acquired a handful of new subsets of anxieties I never considered before.
 
*commence anxiety from posting on Reddit about having anxiety from Reddit posts*