"I'm trying to deal with myself right now, I can't answer these questions,

I like this very much Seesaw. I've started suffering from acute asthma and... find it hard to EXPLAIN to the medical profession that I avoid most of them while sick because NOT-BEING-ABLE-TO-BREATHE means being unable to speak or answer their questions. Medical professionals here are mostly trained on a tick-box routine and can't cope with real life imperfect situations, although there is about 1% who can. A humorous example is when I broke all the bones in my foot and the medical intake person told me that he couldn't process me unless I stepped up onto the weighing machine. It was ludicrous, but also he was a new intake person trying avoid any black marks coming back at him from headquarters - so he had his own stressors.

"I'm trying to deal with myself right now, and can't answer your questions" is a useful assertiveness statement for many of my life situations!!! Thank you for finding this for me.