Hannah McElhinney

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388 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 17 Jun

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You’re Gonna Want To Hear This · Health Anxiety, Chronic Illness and Online Misinformation Cost One Woman Her Life · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

And that's where I think there's an interesting parallel with Lauren because, you know, it's not ticks but, you know, this idea of a mosquito or a tiny pathogen really got me and that led to a reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus which causes the glandular fever and

I had that terribly when I was 19.

And then this dengue reactivated this virus and I was unwell for a year.

And then those things coexist together.

You know, you've got your mind, you've got this joint mechanism.

pain that comes from the Epstein-Barr and then you've got these gut symptoms.

And now when I'm in periods of stress, it's all there again.

And so I went and tried again with alternative medicine and

for the Epstein-Barr sort of reactivation symptoms.

I did a lot of acupuncture.

And for me, that works magic.

My acupuncturist is always like, stop calling it magic.

I think there's, and there's, you know, there's thousands and thousands of years of research onto it.

So I did that.

But then I also do other things that straddle the line.

You know, I take SSRI medication for OCD.

At the same time, I find tarot reading more helpful than therapy.

So yeah, I think there's this thing of, I know how easy it is.

And at the end of the day, we just assemble a toolkit of whatever works for us.

Yeah, I've had OCD since I was a child, though no one recognised it then because I think in recent years obsessive compulsive disorder has just reached a whole new level of cultural understanding.

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