But when this happens to someone who's maybe not in that space, and you're trying to like comprehend like what's happening, how do I get support, what is possible for me, what was all of that like to navigate?

It was really scary.

We're so used to dealing with acute illness and the timescales of acute illness.

You have, say, tonsillitis, and you're unwell.

You go to the doctor.

They know how to treat it, and you can expect to be fully recovered within, say, three weeks.

Going to the doctor and having bloods that are all normal but feeling so deeply unwell and having all of these different symptoms, which of course at the time I didn't know were related, I was going to so many different doctors for so many different things.

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