@GinnyMcQueen
I can totally empathize with how anxiety amps up specific conditions like asthma and vertigo .. yay me I have both but luckily not badly but if I start having a anxiety attack during either the outcome is usually negative

@Zaphodbblx I had to sit through hours of paramedics, nurses, doctors, all telling me "You just need to breathe slower. You need to calm down." AFTER they knew I have anxiety and panic disorder and could clearly see what was happening if they knew anything about... you know... medical shit.

@GinnyMcQueen I totally get ya' . my panic attacks stack. so I'll start off with mild unease and my cabasa will find things to stack on top of that unease till I'm literally pacing the floor so I won't scream or burst into tears (not super manly)
my vertigo is (from what I've been told by Drs and such) really mild and I can still usually even drive unless that is I start "panic stacking". I've found CBD to be very helpful for anxiety.

@Zaphodbblx Same! CBDis great, but still expensive. Everything costs enough to be a problem for me.

@GinnyMcQueen yep. I honestly don't know if I'll be able to continue a daily regime. we're talking nearly 800 bucks a year out of pocket. it's sad this is the best my anxiety has been on 20 years. it's not gone but it doesn't consume my brain anymore

@Zaphodbblx My asthma costs me over $200 a month, and my anxiety/PTSD is around $250 a month. That's just emergency/take when needed mediation. I can't afford preventative or specialists to deal with it.

I also have a bunch of other issues that need tens of thousands in surgery.

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@GinnyMcQueen I'm sorry to hear that. I'll keep hopeful thoughts for you.

Do I want to recount yet another scary, dehumanizing interaction with the LAPD fire and medical departments?

I don't, but also I should talk more about how people are treated here when they are sick.

@GinnyMcQueen I know you're hurting, but could you turn this into a blog series or YouTube video? I'd sponsor it, even.

People need a more concise, balanced view on what it's like to be treated the way you were/are being treated right now

@moritzheiber I'd really like to interview to some medical people and get multiple perspectives on it. But I also feel like America is so fucked that just one more story of how we are fucked will just get lost in the noise? 😁

@GinnyMcQueen that is, unfortunately, very true 😞 To is Europeans it's just so outrageously bizarre.. I guess that's where that impulse was coming from

@moritzheiber I live in a dumpster fire. And I'm in one of the "good" states!