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Comment by elzbardico | Hacker News Reader

Self-reported symptoms. And now we will have the litany of hypochondriacs that didn't even got tested for SARS-COV-2 but swear they have some misterious long term viral syndrome that in the real world, if it really exists, is extremely rare.

The trash that passes as science nowadays.....

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1 in 4 people are not Hypochondriacs. Medical research is used to the way people play up symptoms and this is well above the noise floor.

I don't know about 1 in 4 but it sure seems like there is a lot more of it than their used to be, just in my experience. Younger people living with constant worry about "health care" that I've only ever seen before among the elderly. When I was in my 20s the last thing I or any of my friends worried about was health care.

Are you really trying to paint the fact that the younger generation is taking greater steps to systematically take care of their health as a bad thing? That is absurd.

Well if that's the case, they should start with general nutrition

The worry isn't that their health is always bad. The worry is that if they do happen to have something happen, whether that be disease or injury, they won't be able to afford to go to the hospital or visit their doctor. And death isn't the only negative outcome from not getting medical attention, it could be permanent effects like constant pain or reduced physical ability.

1 in 4 in what kind of “research”?

Long COVID is mostly a myth, popular in a bubble, but without any hard evidence for it. Any of the few long term effects are not that different from what you see from other viral diseases.

Thanks. These symptoms were always there with respiratory illness forever. And suddenly in 2021 these symptoms were given a new cause.

This is a shallow dismissal and isn't contributing anything of value to the conversation.

Further it disregards the multitude of commenters experiences with "self-reported symptoms."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment was not the right tone, to put it mildly. On the other hand there is probably no way to bring up this possibility without being attacked.

For anyone curious, I am not a doctor, this is not medical advice, and every case is different, but state of mind alone can almost certainly do real and serious damage:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09540261.2017.13...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447278/

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