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Which is more hypochondriac... the one thinking they are ill or those diagnosing those with something going on, without a degree? When even the medical community has a difficult time with this and their own limitations... how is it so easy for laymen to come in with a prognosis, calling it a diagnosis and excusing away what might be a real illness with more time, research or medical exploration?
Two of my illnesses I suffered were not discovered until 1986, however it was many, many years later that the general public in the medical community learned of it. They continued to dispute the validity of it as there was so little research and understanding that they couldn't find a definitive test that could actually confirm it to their satisfaction. Leaving millions of people falling between many cracks in life and subject to the implication and name calling of those in their families and the medical community.
The other illness wasn't discovered until the late 1990's, wasn't taught in America and when I found out what it was by a fluke and amazing doctor... there were only 250 families worldwide known to have it. There was one website and one picture of a brain with it. Now many years later, still untaught in American Medical Schools as far as I know, there are hundreds of websites... many researchers all over the world and people being treated for MS rather than the real illness, people not knowing what is really wrong with them, most being treated improperly and dying because of it. I have lost many, many family members to this and malpractice because of ignorance. And we all were called, hypochondriacs.
When I worked with people with strange and rare illnesses and advocated for us all, the most common assault we had in common besides the medical community, were family members playing doctor, labeling us and abusing us. While some with real hypochondria are out there, many are being blamed for things that cannot be attributed to hypochondria.
As for exposing children to someone that is having problems and you are concerned about it influencing them... which could in fact in some cases be a hereditary illness, maybe known somewhere or not many places... that is up to the parent to protect that child and is not the issue of the one who may or may not really be sick. Many illnesses are hereditary and some symptoms blamed on exposure to someone, when in fact they could be a hereditary component.
Another of my more recent illnesses is hereditary and the many lifelong symptoms I had are something that my family are going through, but because of denial the children are being exposed to diets that will create a situation like I have... where I can eat very little and grow weaker by the day because my digestive track was so abused by the wrong foods that now I am a total mess. The family is catching on slowly, but they belittled me so badly and thought the worst of me that I no longer have relationships with most of them... that they wouldn't believe. They wouldn't believe my truths and now that the truths have been exposed... they still have a habit of not believing them and to the point of harming their own children.
This former hypochondriac has a hard time forgiving them for that fact alone.
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