AI is the single best thing for health anxiety

Hear me out. I have always had awful health anxiety where I get pulled into the internet spiral of doom. AI has helped me so much with this. I use ChatGPT 4o, so I’m not sure about the simpler models, but basically for any worry, I outline the concern, I explain I’m concerned, and then I ask for odds on what the cause is.

I could be wrong, but I assume other worriers are also fairly analytical and are helped by seeing odds repeatedly for reassurance.

With AI, you can get the answers you need to those ridiculous questions only we think about. For example, I recently learned that I’d used non food grade tubing on a reverse osmosis system. It was only a couple of feet, but I began to freak out about chemicals. Using AI, I was able to do ridiculously tedious things like determine the possible chemicals, the risks, the actual water amount that might have sat in the tube (.3 ounces), and learned probably far too much about how tube classifications work. Now obviously, this is overkill for most people, but for health worriers, it’s awesome to have a calm and knowledgeable tool that can answer any ridiculous question, while not pointing to stupid Google sites - I.e healthline.

I will never again use Google for searches if I can help it.