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stop normalizing self diagnoses

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 This is a hard one to talk about because the internet and googling have saved many a disabled person at the hands of a time-poor doctor and they have been able to self-medicate but this is the issue that in doing this you might actually cause yourself or another person harm by doing this.  There has been an explosion of people gaining access to medications through googling and getting access to medications that are meant for others' medical condition the big two I can think of is people gaining ADHD medications for study drugs and people using some types of insulin for weight loss when you don't have diabetes or another condition that causes weight gain.  So you make it harder for yourself to have good health care by not trusting doctors or by pushing the doctors to make a diagnosis so you can get what you want, it harms everyone and this isn't a good thing in a way that we see that people want to help themselves but we see that if you are saying things like everyone is a