Episode 32: What happens when you keep speaking up—but still don't feel heard?

And then they come to you and they say that.

They say, listen, so what do you mean by

that? Oh, I see this all the time in my office.

And then also people writing back to us on social media and say, I went to four doctors to try to figure out these symptoms that I'm having.

And they either say it's normal or that's just where you are for your age, but there's never, they don't feel like they have been heard in terms of.

this is what's going on with you.

Let's look into the root cause of it, or let's look into a solution.

And so if they are, they may even be heard in what their symptoms are, but not have them addressed.

And so they're like, they will, get the answer of feeling like, okay, I hear that you're just going to have to deal with it and let's move on.

Or I hear that I don't know how to deal with it.

So I'm going to let you stay with that and not offer any kind of suggestion or anyone who might have a suggestion.

So

that's where they feel dismissed.

And once they bring these things up enough, and a lot of them are hard to bring up to start with.

If there are things about sexual dysfunction or if there are things that are happening with feeling like they're having dementia type symptoms, it's very scary.

And they may... have hesitated to bring it up at all because they don't want that tag of dementia in their medical history.

So when they say, oh, when you forget things and you go into a room and you can't remember, that's normal for where you are.

That's what the

physician is telling.

That's what the professional is

telling.

Yes.

And so their concern is dismissed when it may be causing them a lot of internal anxiety and concern.

And tell me

some more of these symptoms that people will dismiss.