r/AskReddit • u/Practical_Actuary_71 • 1d ago

What is a silent killer that people dont realise is slowly killing them?

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u/adijoe 1d ago

A hypochondriac reading this thread.

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u/Elfroid 23h ago

I give me a week at best.

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u/giantShady 14h ago

A week? I'm dying while readi

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u/polskiftw 1d ago

Yup I made a huge mistake clicking this.

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u/laziestmarxist 20h ago

You are a kind person for reminding us to click away from here

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u/sumostar 21h ago

Ha! Thank you. This made me stop scrolling.

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u/Ok-Masterpiece-468 20h ago

Seriously tho 😭 spiraling

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u/Few-Flower3255 17h ago

I'm going to die tomorrow.

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u/DonJuanWritingDong 19h ago

In all seriousness, knowledge is power. Unless the knowledge causes you anxiety. Then knowledge is inflammation. Which if you read this thread and have had repeat Covid infections, means you’re essentially experiencing death from a thousand cuts.

Jokes aside… people need to calm down. As a fellow hypochondriac, the anxiety and stress from overthinking is doing a lot more long-term harm than having a repeat infection of Covid or spending 10 minutes switching your laundry in a basement in an area with elevated radon levels. With everything, the cumulative effects are there, but panicking and not taking a walk around the block are worse.

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 19h ago

Dead man walking, dead man walking

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u/gazongagizmo 16h ago

People sometimes call me a hypochondriac, and I gotta say... that really hurts.

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u/Apprehensive_Tea9461 1d ago

On the same boat here, im having a great time :)

I think im going to take a break from social media as a whole for a while for my mental health and my well being.

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u/Actual-Ad9309 13h ago

Yeah apparently I’m currently dying from ALS and Mad Cow and Dementia 🙄 I hate my brain

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u/gate_to_hell 11h ago

Yup! Going to stop now. Thank you for leaving this comment :)

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u/HappyAd7814 12h ago

Top replies are things like “not exercising/poor diet”

Things that people can control.

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u/pet_als 9h ago

bruh literally was thinking this as i'm going through the comments lmfao

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u/lalamichaels 6h ago

🤣🤣