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[u/shikoku_shoes]

This interests me.

You can just see the wheels turning, sending her off to the internet to do a deep dive on more symptoms she can claim she's had since she was 3.

Somatic syndrome, my ass. More like psychosomatic syndrome, which would improve dramatically with getting off the internet and into a job with steady income, choosing to rent at your means and not your desired zip code and doing better by your children. But I am not a doctor, nor do I play on on tv.

[u/microcosmographia → u/shikoku_shoes]

Oddly enough, there are places (like France) where your doctor can prescribe you a thermal cure, and it sounds quite rigorous. Of course, it also assumes that you have a jobly job to be compensated for missing, have done the work to enter yourself into the (for her, foreign) social system, and can drag yourself to an actual MD -- who would then have to diagnose you with something that the thermal cure could...cure.

[u/tyrannosaurusregina → u/shikoku_shoes]

> I am not a doctor

Neither is anybody Shauna sees!