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I have had faint memories of being told to use my right hand and getting in trouble when trying to also use my left. Seeing a boy get in trouble for not being able to use his right hand is also a prominent memory. I also couldn’t hold a pen correctly on my right like my left. This memory has become more clear through therapy.

My parents say I used both my hands for things as a baby, but leaning more towards the right hand when needed.

It is really cool, but also scary. It gives me headaches after a couple hours when painting with my left hand too.

Please tell me someone else has gone through something like this!

Hello! I wanted to see if my chart says anything about the direction I should take with my career in art. I had to leave nursing due to chronic illness, physical and mental. I have multiple mediums I work with, but mainly painting. I am a little lost and need some help please.

I have not been allergic to wheat before, up until these last couple years. Both wheat and gluten cause bad reactions, just different ways. I have had so many tests done and I don’t have celiac’s or anything else they can specifically pick apart.

I react to gluten the same way most people who are intolerant do. With wheat it causes intense flare ups within hours that last up to 3 days after I eat it. I already have to stick to the FODMAP diet, but it makes it so much more irritable. It will cause full body aches the same way it feels if I worked out and pulled something everywhere. My muscles will tense up and get stuck, along with extreme stomach pains that last hours.

This used to not happen. Will this ever go away? I just discovered are in my yumearth candies now too.

I saw a post yesterday of someone explaining why they don’t want to get a diagnosis and it really stuck with me. I saw a lot of people coming from a place of wanting or not wanting it based on the people around them not themselves. I wanted to share why I got diagnosed. There are really only 2 reasons.

I am very very good at talking myself out of things. When doing that I will forego all the things that were helping me, as I feel like I don’t need them anymore. My mom also has a hard time with these diagnoses and will talk me out of it too. With this “official” label it allows me to remember, bro you do have this, stop wasting time and feeling sick pondering this. You have it, and you now know what you need to do to help yourself.

The second reason is that I am a very analytical person, and very into biology & treatments, as I was in school to be a nurse. When I know a treatment or at least a rough set of things I can do to help myself, I do them. The way to treat dissociation is pretty specific and different from other things. A lot of solutions to other things can hinder our healing too. The ways to treat bipolar were making me much worse without realizing it. If I didn’t have DID they would have worked great. I wanted a diagnosis so I had the framework of what to work on and how.

The only reason to seek a diagnosis is to help yourself, please don’t let other peoples perspectives and attitudes influence you. If you discover you personally don’t think a diagnosis will help you, then there is no need to get one. My therapist isn’t a big fan of an official diagnosis due to how it can validate or invalidate people, but once I explained my reasonings she understood why I needed one.

I spend a lot of time nauseous, dizzy, and with a large amount of fatigue. I have long since learned to push through the sick feelings and get done what needs to get done. I tend to not realize I am *actually* sick with a flu or virus. Usually, like today, I only pick up on it when I spend the entire night riddled with fevers and wake up even worse, usually like the 2nd or 3rd day. The main problem is that I obviously make myself worse, and the sickness last longer. I just assume I am having a bad flare up those days. This happens to y’all to right?