Do I Have a Brain Tumor? I Don't Know, I'm a Hypochondriac

Penny Dreadful: I am such a hypochondriac. It's always, do i've a brain tumor? Am i starting to get paralyzed? Am i going blind? And i don't know. We lost the narrative on pain massively and then we used pain as a vital sign for a while in medicine instead of really understanding the nature of pain. That meant that it was easy for us to catastrophize right away when we had pain. If you're getting crazy visions and a worm comes out your nose, i's reasonable to go to the doctor. Do you have night sweats, dizziness, fever? Vomiting, nausea? Unaccountable weight loss, weight

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