How the internet ruined my health - confessions of a cyberchondriac: Surveys show that while around a third of patients visiting GPs turn out to have nothing physically wrong with them, 5 per cent have actually convinced themselves they are suffering from a conditions they don't have. This "health anxiety" (the modern term for hypochondria) is fuelled by the huge amount of medical information we have at our fingertips. Cyberchondria is a particularly virile strain of this illness-paranoia and the direct result of the proliferation of websites devoted to health.
Computers can seriously damage your marriage: Couples whose relationships are in trouble are using the Internet to avoid dealing with their problems
