The breast pain was, "all in your head," until a biopsy.
Do tell -- exactly what is the script one needs to deliver in order to be taken seriously when all versions have been attempted, including saying, "I am very anxious about this," from the get-go, or being stalwart and not speaking.
Of course somatization is a very real phenomenon, and why shouldn't it be? How much longer is the medical establishment going to insist that people are all calm, stress-free creatures whose bodies would never, ever, evidence a symptom unless they were, in fact, ill with a popular disease, or, and that's a big OR - crazy. When will this lack of integration and acceptance of mind and body, stop, eh? - JR
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