Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
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likely to ask for help.
And I've definitely met more men who have what they believe to be chronic Lyme symptoms who just say, Yeah, I'm toughing it out, you know, I I want to get off the medical carousel.
I got sick of talking to doctors, I'm done.
Women are more likely to sort of go on asking for help, which
in a way undercuts them because it means the doctors see more women asking for help and are say this is a female problem.
But then it's also the women who in the end are maybe more likely to get help.
And asking for help is good.
These kind of conditions are not things that you should just have to simply live with.
The heart of the challenge is that really in a lot of these instances all that you can offer is your presence.
Most of the time what
The sick person needs is someone to vent to, someone to talk to, someone to be there.
But in offering that presence, you often are going to feel like you aren't offering anything because there's no immediate improvement.
It's not like the sick person seems much happier when you're there.
They're not happy, but you are still helping.
them.
From the friend's perspective, that's an important thing to keep in mind, that just because it doesn't seem like you're immediately helping someone with your presence or your listening doesn't mean that you aren't helping them.
And especially in one particular way, which is that quite often the sick person has people around them who are trapped with them.
In my case that meant my wife.
In other cases it might be a caregiver, a parent,
Someone who is immediately there all the time and can't get away from the sick person.
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