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Cyberchondria

Cyberchondria is compulsive online health searching that heightens anxiety instead of resolving it — driven by algorithm-fueled content, uncertainty intolerance, and reassurance-seeking loops. Evidence-based supports include CBT, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and structured limits on health-information searching alongside therapy. Offline.now is building a network of licensed therapists who work with cyberchondria.

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