Sunday, January 31, 2010
Was it real
Earlier this year i was given a test that was used to determine if the patient had lupus or cancer. after waiting several hours the test came back inconclusive, and i would need to come back later in the week. during that week i was very worried that i did in fact have cancer or lupus and began to feel sick. Lewontin would say that the reason i became sick was that i was preoccupied with being obsessed with the illness that it did make me sick. In the end the test showed that i did not have cancer or lupus and upon hearing this my symptoms disappeared.
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I've had similar experiences with situations that are comparable to the one in your post. They're not quite on the same level as being diagnosed with cancer or lupus are, but even something as simple as watching a show on TV or reading an article in a newspaper or online describing/explaining symptoms of a particular disease or illness would have me diagnosing myself; comparing how I felt given the symptoms the show or article were emphasizing.
ReplyDeleteI think I did it almost subconsciously because I, like many other people I'm sure, don't like to feel as though there is something disastrously 'wrong' with me. The ironic thing about that whole mindset can be however, is that by self-diagnosing, it's easy to trick yourself to think, and even feel, as though you indeed are suffering from some sort of disease or illness.