[misc.handicap] People just don't underst

Keith.Jones@f3.n157.z1.fidonet.org (Keith Jones) (06/14/91)

Index Number: 16045

[This is from the Chronic Pain Conference]

-> I am sick and tired of having to deal with people who don't have a
-> chronic pain problem!  They just don't understand that, because
   Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. There is nobody to talk to about
chronic pain except another who has it. "Normal" people look at me like
I am nuts and ask questions like ,"Can't a doctor do something for you"?
or "There must be some way to help you"? Well, no there is not a way to
help me right now and the doctors can't help me. After having chronic
pain for almost 2 years now I just don't talk to anybody about it. That
is until I found this echo. Only we can understand another's pain
(physical, mental, and spiritual). So I bitch here where others can at
least empathise.
-> Why don't the damn quacks come up with some effective treament??
-> *adh*
   Most doctors don't care. We represent their failure. That is, they
can't make us feel good so they must dismiss us. We are a threat to
everything they have learned in medical school and mostly their own
egos!

                                   -Keith-

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