I was lucky: I was diagnosed relatively early - I was in a big city with teaching hospitals. I had many various treatments to reduce chronic pain. Knowing the issue, I could use nutrition to control it, too.
But stories like these are still very common. The destruction of a person's life should not be waved away as "in your head":
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""Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women."
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"Mothers are blaming themselves for their 'failures' in this pandemic — for failing to be the perfect worker who doesn’t let her kids distract her … for failing to be the perfect mother who sacrifices work to meet her kids’ needs, for failing to be the perfect wife who never gets angry & always defers to her spouse.
As a sociologist, it’s easy to see how that blame is deeply misplaced…"