Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan

Oh yeah. And then what happened was the Soviet Union broke up and the uranium mine shut down. And one by one, all these amazing facilities they had were lost. Most people left the town. There had been thousands living there, but this stalwart 300 stayed. And I think they stayed kind of thinking, this was once paradise. I raised my children here. This place means a lot to me.

Oh yeah. And then what happened was the Soviet Union broke up and the uranium mine shut down. And one by one, all these amazing facilities they had were lost. Most people left the town. There had been thousands living there, but this stalwart 300 stayed. And I think they stayed kind of thinking, this was once paradise. I raised my children here. This place means a lot to me.

They told me stories about having picnics by the riverside and it was all very beautiful. They thought that it would eventually go back to being paradise. But instead what was happening was it was just becoming more and more decrepit. What happened when you got the sleeping sickness, the only way to cure you was to leave the town. Yeah.

They told me stories about having picnics by the riverside and it was all very beautiful. They thought that it would eventually go back to being paradise. But instead what was happening was it was just becoming more and more decrepit. What happened when you got the sleeping sickness, the only way to cure you was to leave the town. Yeah.

They told me stories about having picnics by the riverside and it was all very beautiful. They thought that it would eventually go back to being paradise. But instead what was happening was it was just becoming more and more decrepit. What happened when you got the sleeping sickness, the only way to cure you was to leave the town. Yeah.

I think it was just a really phenomenally sophisticated way of making that really hard decision. In the end, I thought it was a kind of a love story for this town. You know, it meant so much to them and leaving it was so painful. Sometimes these psychosomatic disorders, we think of them as illnesses, but sometimes they are a way of our brains helping us through a problem.

I think it was just a really phenomenally sophisticated way of making that really hard decision. In the end, I thought it was a kind of a love story for this town. You know, it meant so much to them and leaving it was so painful. Sometimes these psychosomatic disorders, we think of them as illnesses, but sometimes they are a way of our brains helping us through a problem.

I think it was just a really phenomenally sophisticated way of making that really hard decision. In the end, I thought it was a kind of a love story for this town. You know, it meant so much to them and leaving it was so painful. Sometimes these psychosomatic disorders, we think of them as illnesses, but sometimes they are a way of our brains helping us through a problem.

There's survival mechanisms in some way.

There's survival mechanisms in some way.

There's survival mechanisms in some way.

dissociative seizures, very often they happen for the first time at a time of great stress. There's only so much you can handle and this is your brain protecting you from the thing you can't handle. Then it all goes a little bit around.

dissociative seizures, very often they happen for the first time at a time of great stress. There's only so much you can handle and this is your brain protecting you from the thing you can't handle. Then it all goes a little bit around.

dissociative seizures, very often they happen for the first time at a time of great stress. There's only so much you can handle and this is your brain protecting you from the thing you can't handle. Then it all goes a little bit around.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Yeah, everything I write comes from the patients I care for. I'm in full-time NHS practice. I'm seeing patients every day and the patients I'm seeing have changed over the decades. A lot of my patients are very young. I will see people in their 20s and they're coming to see me now and they will have a list of 9, 10 different diagnoses.

Yeah, everything I write comes from the patients I care for. I'm in full-time NHS practice. I'm seeing patients every day and the patients I'm seeing have changed over the decades. A lot of my patients are very young. I will see people in their 20s and they're coming to see me now and they will have a list of 9, 10 different diagnoses.

Yeah, everything I write comes from the patients I care for. I'm in full-time NHS practice. I'm seeing patients every day and the patients I'm seeing have changed over the decades. A lot of my patients are very young. I will see people in their 20s and they're coming to see me now and they will have a list of 9, 10 different diagnoses.