For starters, nobody knows if they're on ALL the time, or they're treating themselves for something they don't have. How do you know they don't have this or that? Even doctors are at a loss as to diagnose sometimes, which is why many of us reverted to the net in the first place.

That does not make a person a "cyberchondriac" (or hypochondriac). Just makes them human and hating feeling like cr*p everyday.

Some people are on the internet all the time because they are so ill, there's not much more they can do. Either that, or they sit or lie in bed. better than doing nothing and vegetating, or going to doctors that don't help.

If someone is a "cybercondriac", then with or without a computer, they'd be a "hypochondriac", because hypochondria is an illness in and of itself and who knows what causes it.

But people searching for answers for health problems and wanting to get well so they can get on with their life, can hardly be labelled under the same catagory. The internet is also a vast source of information and contacts with others around the world and can be most helpful. Becuase of the internet, my mercury toxic improved markedly as that's where I got the best information believe it or not and where I ordered some wonderful books and got on with detoxing and improving and i made some friends along the way, whom I still keep in touch with. Emailing is also great. What the heck is wrong about that? Better than sitting on my as* spending money to sit in a doctor's office, watching them fill out pointless prescription for antidepressants, because they can't figure out what else to do.

Been down that road, no thanks, never again. waste of money, waste of time. Internet has been a godsend!