“I was constantly Googling and using ChatGPT, every source I could get that could tell me what was wrong,” she says. <\/p>\n
“I spent so long in the hospital. They’d tell me it’s nothing, they’d check everything.<\/p>\n
“I’d go home, but then my legs would feel weak, so I’d Google that and then it would say it’s a sign of heart failure. So I’d go back, it was literally a constant cycle.”<\/p>\n
At its worst, she “completely disconnected from everyone” and wouldn’t reply to messages from family to avoid repetitive conversations.<\/p>\n
Sharman says her health anxiety also had an extreme affect on her relationship. <\/p>\n
“It got to the point that nothing he said would be the right thing.<\/p>\n
“I would get upset because he didn’t understand what was going on inside my own head. How can you tell someone everything’s fine when I think I’m actually dying?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I was constantly Googling and using ChatGPT, every source I could get that could tell me what was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-942797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}