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She is uninformed she is not a doctor I need a real medical doctor or psychiatrist skilled enough to understand how serious this . They don't want my death on their hands and they don't want permanent brain damage on their hands so no one will take me and help me correctly.
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My benzo taper is failing. I was threatened by the NP yesterday that if I do not take three drugs I've already gotten off of she will stop treating me whether I live or die. 38 years of high dose daily use prescription that has done nothing but permanently damage me.
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I really appreciate your kindness I'm very sad now I don't want to die of a benzo withdrawal when I have triumphantly survived for longer than any known person with two untreatable terminal conditions. I don't know what to do.
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My support has not been good since I lost my husband and my mother. Many of my friends have passed away or are distant as I traveled for work for most of my life despite being already 100% disabled medically. I have no provider who will slow down despite two tonic clonic seizures
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It just makes me cry and I am crying it's such a tragedy and it's one that doesn't have to exist shame on the people who participate in the sadistic and ignorant practice of making people sicker bringing more suffering to humankind than we already have? Horrifying
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Sadly there is nothing here no one except a pain management clinic which would be happy to give me any opioid I want I don't want Pharmaceuticals at all I don't care about my pain I want quality of life and not to die from benzo withdrawals.
Possibly true I don't have any evidence one way or the other and I don't think anybody does but they act as if they do.
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It's like IQ the potential exists if the number is typically 140 or higher. It does not mean you are a genius or will ever be one. You can have a genetic marker for a disease that doesn't mean you'll have the disease.
That would simply be projecting sympathy otherwise empathy is actually feeling the pain not a projection and recognition that is sympathy
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The DSM is written by a small group of people who vote by hand on conditions defined only by observed pattern and opinion. It has expanded exponentially since version 1 in 1958 which considered homosexuality a mental disease and suggested treatments so heinous it's unspeakable.
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Even more important as some chronic and terminal patients will never be well is to never cause iatrogenic disease. And that's what they do. Every damn day.
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I love that. I could have stuck with doctors that would never have taken me off of them I made a decision to decouple my life from the entire Healthcare System. I'm not winning. I guess I still have resources they can take away so they want to try.
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LOL that's funny three new stupid potential additions are patients who Google their condition and treatments are obsessive, hyper empathy as feeling the suffering of the world and individuals is irrational, persistent grief because grief apparently has an expiration date. SMH!
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I sure have studied a lot about tapering but I think it's highly individualistic as well as longevity of use, tolerance, which benzos, what dosages. Symptoms of panic are not too bad but 8 days in I had two tonic clonic seizures and I am more worried about those. For good reason.
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Another insult to injury rampant in healthcare is the idea that no patient is equal to the health care provider much less more educated much less have higher education or be more intelligent both of which I am than the vast majority of people who have treated me. So insulting.
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Yes absolutely and not just that but actually the quality of medical education in the United States has been in Decline they do not teach Medical Science they teach I don't know what they teach a lot of bullshit. If a patient is more educated than their MD that's very disturbing.
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Often I'm confused at the concept of building or teaching or learning how to be empathetic. I think empathy is something that is native to individuals you can learn how to pretend to be empathetic but to actually feel another person's pain as your own? That's an assumption.
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I have to agree and I also have to say that their education is useless and where they get their information on medication is usually through the pharmaceutical companies and representatives who are called into the office before the patient. I see that I get verbally loud and rude
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