There's something I need to get over here. I was brought up in a not very compassionate environment. I think this has caused me to second guess people that I hear complain a lot or that talks about having so many issues. My first feelings were that this wasn't just a group of people with a common illness but a bunch of people feeding off each other. It seems like there's a lot of posts where someone asks about a symptom and the same people all the time are able to relate to everything and have or had suffered from the same thing or say they expect to someday from their family history. I understand auto-immune diseases and its "ugly sisters" but it seems to me like hypochondria and Munchausen runs rampid in these halls. I'm sure the truth is somewhere in the middle but I have a hard time sorting it all out. Don't get me wrong, I need a community of people to help me through this and my cancer treatments. I can't do it alone nor do I want to try. Has anyone else had these thoughts as they first started to open up about what's going on with them?
