Comments on: Internet Diagnosis Syndrome! https://adam-eason.com/internet-diagnosis-syndrome/ Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherpy as taught by Hypnotherapist Adam Eason Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:54:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: admin https://adam-eason.com/internet-diagnosis-syndrome/#comment-16172 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:49:46 +0000 http://adam-eason.com/?p=1879#comment-16172 In reply to Schalk Burger.

Hello Schalk, I am guessing that you are directing your comment me and not actually to Andy – I’m Adam, I wrote the article and this is my website 🙂

Thank you for your comment and contribution, I am delighted you gave it such thought.

I have not wished to create any impression about that 75% of people at all… I am simply and solely writing to recommend that people do not wholly rely on self-diagnosing by means of what they read on the internet. That in fact, they consider looking a little more deeply…

I have no intention of being bogged down in semantics or impression dealing, just writing about my own experience as usual, supported by the literature I read and encounter along the way.

Thanks again, Adam.

]]> By: Schalk Burger https://adam-eason.com/internet-diagnosis-syndrome/#comment-16171 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:07:01 +0000 http://adam-eason.com/?p=1879#comment-16171 Hi Andy,
Although the article is clearly about , as you put it, self screening and not self diagnosis and/or “overdiagnosis” due to the unfiltered state of “Dr Google”, there is unfortunately some major inaccuracies and some rather clever wrongful (and mischievious) associations in your article:
Firstly: You fail to mention that Psychiatric “diseases” and mental “Illnesses” are not really diseases or illnesses as defined by medical science, nor is the DSM based on scientific evidence of disease.
Secondly: Behaviour problems and emotional disturbances like grief is quoted in the same context as actual disease. To quote and claim “diagnosis” as if these were diseases is simply wrong. To further say that in about 25% of diagnosed depressive disorder cases it may just be normal grief, clearly , by default, wishes to create the impression that the other 75% is then, by default correctly diagnosed as a bona fida medical disorders. This is a fabrication and lacks scientific validation.

]]> By: admin https://adam-eason.com/internet-diagnosis-syndrome/#comment-16170 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:04:25 +0000 http://adam-eason.com/?p=1879#comment-16170 In reply to Andy Palmer.

Hi Andy,

Ok, an interresting take… I would hasten to add that cancer is not really something you’d solely diagnose behaviourally, is it?

Though yes, it is a very good notion to question the evidence you have that suggests you do NOT have such a condition, very good 🙂

Thanks for that.

]]> By: Andy Palmer https://adam-eason.com/internet-diagnosis-syndrome/#comment-16169 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:01:23 +0000 http://adam-eason.com/?p=1879#comment-16169 The trick to the scientific method is to look for things that disprove your hypothesis.

The internet says I may have Aspergers / Bipolar / cancer, what aspects of my behaviour / physiology make that unlikely?

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