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I highly doubt that 160 million people are cyberchondriacs. It makes more sense to think that, most if not all of those people are smart responsible people who are trying to educate themselves about something in relation to them, their family or friends. Believe it or not most everyone in this world propably has some illness that they haven't a clue about. So, if while educating themselves about something for a completely different reason, they find out that they themselves have an illness they came across while studying is not that hard to believe. More & more scientists & doctors are finding out that many people have depression but don't know it & now they finding out that most people who have depression are also bi-polar. So searching for or just running across we can't state for certain. I see nothing wrong with people educating themselves & I don't think you have the right to start calling these people cyberchondriacs for it.