How do I stop googling everything?

[Anonymous]

For the past 7 months I spend hours everyday googling things that bother me. It’s super irrational but the second it starts to bother me I need to google it to feel better about myself. Things i’ve spent way too many hours a week googling was my sexual orientation, personality type, favourite colour, bra size (i know it’s stupid), the laptop I bough and more. I don’t know why but something about these bothers me for example being unsure of my sexual orientation, my personality type, scared I bought the wring bra size or laptop. They’re all first world problems but they all bother me and I need to spend hours googling to reassure myself. Anyone know why I do this and how to stop? Thanks :(

[nerms123]

Sounds like a bit of anxiety and ocd. Usually in these cases something kind of big has happened that has caused you to feel anxious. Usually it’s something we can’t control and so we develop the need to constantly reassure ourselves. The only problem is no matter how much you google things you’ll keep worrying about more and more things because they aren’t the real issue. I would first suggest trying to delay the googling. See if you can wait one minute then five minutes before googling. Keep trying to extend the delay and notice that nothing bad is happening related to the worry. Secondly try to focus on the bigger events that might have bothered you and think about how you could make peace with them. Eventually the anxiety will reduce and you won’t care about googling.

[WTFever]

Yeah, start worrying about something that actually matters. Like why mother nature is actively trying to kill you.

[codycccccccccc]

Start smoking pot with the other teenagers and find yourself a boyfriend

[Cuppo_Mode]

Start yahooing every thing instead, with Yahoo

[Skydive19]

Make friends to spend time with

[Rustro]

Meditate

[ChefCurry]

Lmao whut