Why do so many people assume they have?

Question

either diabetes or bi-polar disorder on yahoo answers when they don't even have any of the symptoms. I don't see the point of someone trying to self diagnose themselves when they don't know anything about these diseases. So, who else finds this annoying?

Answer 1

I think its normal when you start to feel ill that you try to self diagnose yourself.  Maybe diabetes and bipolar disorder are so common because they're well publicized in the media (or something like that).  The problem is that these people don't know any of the symptoms that go along with the diseases.