I Spent 8 Hours a Day Googling Cancer Symptoms

OCD-induced health anxiety was my full-time job

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My phone glowed in the darkness, illuminating the white cotton sheets bunched in a pile near my pillow. The neighborhood was silent, but I could hear a train whistling in the distance. It was 3 a.m., but the train wasn’t what woke me from my restless slumber.