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Part 3: Ruled Out [Part two of this series looked at some of my early symptoms through the lens of my experience teaching mental health diagnosis. In this post I describe the challenges that evolving...
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Part 4: Testing negative [In part three of this series post I explored my evolving symptoms through the challenges of differential diagnosis. This post describes the turning point at which anxiety...
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Part 5: Mayo to Hmong [In part four of this series I accepted the fact that I had to consider the possibility that I had ALS. In this post, I visit the Mayo clinic to definitively rule out that...
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Part 6: The Story So Far… [In part five of this series I discussed traveling to the Mayo Clinic in search of a diagnosis, and I described alternative treatments I explored.] To sum up If you watch...
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Part 7: Surrender [In part six of this series I paused to summarize my efforts so far in my quest for a diagnosis.] Step one We admitted that we were powerless. A lot of people who start up in 12-step...
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