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Originally Posted by Scooter9
Sometimes you bump into what I refer to as the limit of understanding and empathy, and I think you found that.
I feel there's a certain tolerance for people that are considered to be outside the common/normal experience, like us. People, doctors, and others are empathetic, but only to a degree and it varies by person and profession. But there is an outer limit.
I think in this case you reached that limit for that person. So you might have to find help elsewhere, Muddy. I'm so sorry.
I have hit that limit with my pdoc, which I find surprising. I thought it would be further out, but I guess not.
It's not you, Muddy it's the result of how the system is built. It's really crappy, since that leaves us in a not so great place having to find ways to cope or deal with on our own.
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Yeah, but there's also downright dangerously stupid. She essentially said I don't need to eat or see a doctor if I have a positive mindset, to not consider that my intake sucks (
don't think about how people can literally die when their potassium gets too low and how mine was just severely low too) and just focus on the weather getting warmer and how talented I must be if I can play multiple musical instruments (which I reminded her my muscles aren't exactly 100% right now and not sure if they ever will be again so thank you for that reminder). She suggested people can will their way out of hallucinating and paralysis and such. When the more and more she told me to be positive and the more aggressive I got, she got frustrated and just said "hopefully your therapist can explain it to you more and can help next week," like, no, my therapist teaches radical acceptance and self-care. Not denial and "if you think you can swim to the sun, you can," because she's not a careless, dangerous dunce.
I get the mindset of "if you think you can, you're halfway there," for stuff like, doing well at a job interview. Not physically impossible feats like surviving jumping into a furnace blasting at the highest heat of any factory on earth.