I was a slave to the machinations of my aberrant brain. We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.
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The mind is like a circuit of Christmas tree lights. When the brain works well, all of the lights twinkle brilliantly, and its adaptable enough that, often, even if one bulb goes out, the rest will still shine on. But depending on where the damage is, sometimes that one blown bulb can make the whole strand go dark.
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When we live in a time when the rate of misdiagnoses in the United States has shown no improvement since the 1930s, the lesson here is that it's important to always get a second opinion.
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An alarming majority of autoimmune diseases—around 75 percent—occur in women, affecting us more than all types of cancer combined. Autoimmune diseases are most likely the number one cause of disability in women of all ages. There are multiple theories about why women are so disproportionally affected, ranging from genetic, to environmental, to hormonal (most women are of childbearing age when they are diagnosed), to the fact that women's immune systems are more complicated (they need to identify and safeguard fetuses, which are half-foreign entities, during pregnancy), and with everything more complex, malfunctions are all the more severe. For now, it's just one more riddle in a series of question marks.
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