Ugh I’m so sorry! I hope she gets better, and soon! The accusations of malingering or psychosomatic or even feigned illness are appalling. It can be a torturous experience. Wishing her (and your whole family) well.

I had late stage Lyme and the neurological effects can lead to psychosis. I was diagnosed as schizophrenic before a Dr saved my life by paying attention to the details and putting me on long term antibiotics. Hallucinations cleared right up.

It is a THING. I had Lyme-caused psychosis, neurological damage, I have persistent arthritis - if you’d like to go through my hundreds of pages of medical history, you might so being so dismissive of other’s experience.

THANK YOU for acknowledging that it is not just a made up problem for the lazy wealthy. Goddamn i wish I could afford to be this sick.

Oh my god you sound like a raging bitch.

SO much more patient! Wow, that’s like, Midwest level of nice!

I don’t care I want to take him home and keep him forever.

I’m so sorry that happened. That sounds like a nightmare. My mom died in 2004 and it is still agony but at least that stuff was settled years before. Hope you’re ok. *sorry, don’t mean to be awkward Internet stranger*

Thank you for expressing this so well! So many people recommended the books to me for years before the program started, but i really couldn’t get into them and really felt agitated and irrationally angry so would put that first one down half through every year or so. I never analyzed it but i think you nailed the…

Do not like, at all. I thought she was more interesting than this! She sounds so generic and formulaic - “those sluts can’t catch me”.

She’s my favorite actress, i think. Every movie, no matter hire small a part, she’s magical on screen. I can’t believe she didn’t get an Oscar for Melancholia, Marie Antoinette, Virgin Suicides, or, if the Academy had a comedy category, seriously Drop Dead Gorgeous, Bring It On, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,…

You rock! Would you share your recipe? Or is it the same one lifehacker shared? I love your fixes and the colors! :D

I get that horrible catalog. why, world?

A short skirt and a loooong jacket!

Thank you, though, randilynbeginagain! :D

May i beg for an ungreying, oh powerful kinja warrior?

Oh great, your empathy is really showing. Maybe try a field where you don’t have to deal with sick people and their “vague symptoms. “

THANK YOU. I’m too angry at this article to express myself, so thank you so much for being so articulate in the face of ignorance.

And how, in your medical opinion, does depression manifest itself in crepititis, meningitis, joint swelling, and physically visible issues?

Awful but yes I would. I’m married with a child but still I would do terrible things for money and I would definitely do that.