Updated On: 09 December, 2014 08:14 AM IST | | The Guide Team
<p>From headaches to bodyaches, most of us pop in pills to maintain our bodies and lives, glitch-free. As per a Mumbai-based doctor, 20% to 40% of his patients result from complications due to self medication. the guide finds out if that tiny pill bodes health, after all</p>

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Is it all in the mind?
The psychology behind the popping
Dr Seema Hingorany, shares, “I see that self-medication trend is becoming rampant everywhere. For small illnesses and some very inconsequential ones people are medicating themselves. The hidden symptoms which many of them cannot perceive is heightened anxiety and a negative belief that they can’t fall sick.
