jesse_the_k | Insightful Blog on the Satisfaction of Diagnosis

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the minute you can condense your symptoms into a singular diagnosis, and have That Phrase on your sheet, it’s like getting upgraded to first class on the airline. Suddenly, doctors have to agree that you must be taken seriously – sure, you’re in the exact same amount of pain you were in before, but they can’t hand-wave it off. When they see That Phrase on your chart, they actually stop and read back to see what they were missing, because That Phrase makes you somebody important.
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Just so.

When I got the DX for my brain shit, it retrospectively lined up flocks of ducks in a row. Oh! There are meds for this!

And over a decade I learned that, well, yes, meds for BP work most of the time, but I'm still the fucking special snowflake. (At this point I have to trot out my most-absurd-side-effects ever, because I'm kinda proud of them: Lithium made me able to whistle in tune; Lamatrogine made my hair curl.) No magic bullets for me.

So the diagnostic magic boost can also be illusory.

Bodies, who knows?

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