Tbh, women are more likely to be told all kinds of issues are psychological, especially that the issues come from anxiety. I've gained a distrust towards doctors myself, even sent a complaint the other day.
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even sent a complaint the other day.
Good for you for speaking up.
As someone avoidant of doctors, I just want to say thank you for reporting the bad ones. I wish I had the courage to face them in order to report them.
I believe this is the foundation of the anti-vax and holistic movements. It makes sense to me it started with mothers who distrust doctors due to doctors dismissing their concerns about themselves and talking down to them for their entire adult lives. About every ten years some major study reveals the problem yet again but nothing is ever done about it.
I didn't even bother getting mine diagnosed because I have severe trauma around not being believed medically and it just isn't worth it. Not like they'd help a woman even if they believed her.
Honestly, I'm a man and I feel like I get brushed off for fucking everything. I had a chronic issue which turned out to be appendicitis. It got diagnosed as acid reflux and I lived with it for 2 more years before it became a medical fucking emergency and I almost died. I've had an ear issue that I've seen 2 ents and multiple doctors about. Supposedly, I'm fine. I'm sure we're going to wait til that boils over into something worse. I'm thinking some cunt put I was psychosomatic when I was trying to get the appendix thing figured out, and now they all see it in my charts and act like I'm a hypochondriac when I have some real shit that needs to be handled. It's very annoying.
Just failure all around. We pay out the ass for this kind of care.
Aren't most auto immune diseases psychological for all genders?
In most cases it's related to mental stress afaict
No, they are physical conditions. It's the body's immune system attacking its own healthy tissue.
Yes, but almost always that is coincident with stress.
Stress exacerbates the issue, but it is not a psychological disorder. It's a biological and physical condition.
Almost everyone in my family has autoimmune diseases (lupus is very common) and the men almost all have hair loss except me.
I think smoking weed, eating vegan, and living a much lower stress life (eg no children) is one of the reasons I don't have one. Genetically I probably should have one.
Obviously low sample size, etc
Im the first one to be diagnosed in my family and its rare enough that I won’t say it online, but I think my grandmother suffered from something similar.
Weed changed my entire life - went from flare ups every other month to maaaaybe once a year. Stress management as well, though I went ahead and threw a child into the mix which is the last thing one should do to lower stress hahaha.
I really focus on working to live instead of living to work and that helps a lot, too.
I hope your low stress choices continue to be good for you!! I can’t imagine those are bad choices whether you have an predisposition to an autoimmune disease or not.