“I was constantly Googling and using ChatGPT, every source I could get that could tell me what was wrong,” she says.
“I spent so long in the hospital. They’d tell me it’s nothing, they’d check everything.
“I’d go home, but then my legs would feel weak, so I’d Google that and then it would say it’s a sign of heart failure. So I’d go back, it was literally a constant cycle.”
At its worst, she “completely disconnected from everyone” and wouldn’t reply to messages from family to avoid repetitive conversations.
Sharman says her health anxiety also had an extreme affect on her relationship.
“It got to the point that nothing he said would be the right thing.
“I would get upset because he didn’t understand what was going on inside my own head. How can you tell someone everything’s fine when I think I’m actually dying?”