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Fighting for Validation When Doctors Don't Take Your Chronic Illness Seriously

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When you are first diagnosed with something like anxiety and depression or fibromyalgia and neuropathy, or the first time those conditions are thrown around at a doctor’s appointment, it can feel like a huge relief.

You finally have an explanation; you finally have someone listening to you and taking your pain seriously, it’s huge. Many of us spend months, years even fighting to be taken seriously, begging for our doctors to hear us, to stop what they are doing and pay attention to us.

The first time I truly felt heard by one of my doctors I actually said to him “wait you’re actually listening to me?” Mind you I did not intend for it to be out loud.

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