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When doctors dismiss your symptoms as stress

My doctor keeps dismissing my symptoms and says it's just stress, but I know something is wrong with my body and I feel like I'm going crazy trying to advocate for myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The erosion of trust between patient and provider creates a crisis of self-doubt about one's own bodily experience.

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