You’re not crazy and it’s not in your head

Maybe your physical symptoms aren’t made up after all

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Two decades ago when I was only 19, I laid in my friend Ben’s bed watching TV when he looked at me sideways suspiciously. What? I asked squirming uncomfortably under his stare. “You got a fat neck. Have you ever had your thyroid checked?” No, and also, fuck you. He was a volunteer EMT at the time who…