Stress - College Freshman

mimk6
Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:18:01 +0000

DD was stressed her freshman year. And sick. She was told by her doctor here that she needed to relax and do yoga. She attended an Ivy League school and he decided she was an over-achiever who was putting too much stress on herself. Thanks to his inability to see past his own assumptions, she went almost another year before being properly diagnosed with a chronic illness and during that year she became progressively sicker. It was a different doctor who finally realized what was going on. I later heard from a friend whose child had the same disease that bright young women with this illness are often told they just need to relax by male doctors.