Here’s How To Navigate The Health Care System When You Have Anxiety!
“Just don’t eat cheese or spicy food.”
The physician stated. She checked out me really, snapping off her rubber mitts after an unpleasant (and invasive) test emerged inconclusive.
I’d been getting stomach pains that will double me over suddenly, waking me during the night, tossing me right into a panic. It was not until soon after rigorous days of telling myself it had been all within my mind that the pang knocked the wind from me. Even so, I chosen a scheduled appointment over urgent care. I did not consider my discomfort “urgent.” Possibly, even, I figured it a punishment for which I considered an individual failing.
My fears and mental gymnastics culminated right into a single five-minute consultation having a physician who didn't appear of looking after. After which I received a...