One of the most important things I've learned in my Lyme journey is that not all instances of a given symptom or behavior are the same!
When someone is hyperventilating, it does not always mean they are having a panic attack! They are not always able to stop it. It could be from chemical poisoning. It could be from a number of things.
When someone yells or is violent, it does not always mean they chose to do it, they have anger problems, or that they should be punished. They could have neurotoxicity and severely lowered irritation thresholds. They might not even be that upset. On another day the same upset might not have even registered with the other person or even with themselves.
We need to be more subtle and see things in CONTEXT of the individual and their case history.
Medicine is getting TERRIBLE, fucking terrible at doing that. There are flowcharts of symptoms and test results to reactions. And there is less and less room to learn about the individual.
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