New Delhi, Oct. 30 -- In this age of endless scrolling, an innocent search for health information can quickly turn into a vicious cycle of needless worry, sleepless nights and even self-created ailments. Meet "Cyberchondria", a new, digital condition of health anxiety fuelled by obsessive online symptom searches. As a clinical psychologist, I see it spreading like wildfire, especially among millennials and Gen Z.

WHEN SCROLLING TURNS HARMFUL

For many of us, the downward spiral into the abyss of cyberchondria starts innocently enough: a quick search on Google about a headache or a random reel that lists symptoms of a "hidden" disease. Then begins the slippery slope of doom scrolling through an avalanche of fear-based content (made by soc...