liberaces_taco

I honestly don't get the uptight people here. I want you to be my best friend.

I was hit by a car (luckily no long-term damage resulting from it) and you have no idea how lucky you are. The woman who hit me stayed, but then claimed "I walked out in front of her" while I was walking in a parking lot. She hit me incredibly hard for being in a parking lot, and when I went to walk out (following my fiancé) no car was coming, and between then and when she hit me (crossing maybe 10 feet) I was hit. He barely escaped. Then when we tried to get her insurance to pay the bills (it was private property so technically the police couldn't give her a ticket) they claimed that because my fiancé almost got hit and I was following him it apparently was my fault (not even kidding).

One of my majors is philosophy and I am currently taking a class called "Topics in Moral Philosophy." One of the topics we spent time on was identity. We talked about the transporter, and as someone who has had a lot of surgery I'm with you and believe you are not the same person going into the transformer as the person who comes out. But I never thought about it when it comes to anesthesia.

Mind blown.

You may not be answering but I hope this reaches you.

I have an illness called CRPS/RSD. I am fortunate because I was diagnosed early and have access to an amazing medical team.

With that said, I moved across the state so when emergencies occur I now end up going to a small town ER instead of the ER that has my team of doctors. I have been treated like hell despite the fact that I don't take any narcotics and never have asked for them. It seems like if you have a pain disorder you are immediately not taken seriously. At times, it could have seriously effected my health. I once ended up with a serious infection because doctors ignored my symptoms of pain (even though I've never had pain in my ear.)

I just wanted to ask you if you could go to RSDS.org and familiarize yourself with the CRPS/RSD emergency room protocol. It was created to help make the lives of both patients and emergency room staff easier because we don't like being treated like drug addicts when we come in for stuff, and you don't like giving us the medication we need. Ketamine has been useful in treating pain episodes.

Sometimes with RSD we have comorbidities that we don't realize we have yet and that can be scary. When we come in with pain and nothing is wrong, but we swear it hurts, often something IS wrong but the ER is not the place you will find it. This has happened to me numerous times. I have left the ER feeling like I'm crazy, no one believes me, and that my pain isn't real. In addition, instead of just validating how I feel I get drugged to high heaven. I hate being medicated like that. Please keep this in mind when you have interactions with these patients.

Also, while I get there will always be drug addicts who make it hard for those of us with legitimate conditions, please keep in mind that sometimes the person who you think might be a drug addict could truly be suffering and your kindness could mean the world to them.

Finally, please familiarize yourself with this disease. I have always had positive interactions with hospitalize staff who have heard of my disease, even if just a little bit. All negative reactions have been from people who don't know what it is. They seem to hear "Pain" and don't hear anything else.

So could you please do those things?

Your comment really stuck out to me because I honestly have never really researched this personality disorder. This reads to me like a classic sociopath. The non-murderous kind.

I honestly know nothing about psychology beyond the random stuff I have been diagnosed with, and even then I try to not go down the rabbit hole because then I'll get paranoid, but are people who have this prone to violence? I would assume so. I imagine it's also pretty common among CEOs.