


| The doctor's friend said that prescribing an anti-depressant would be no problem. She then administered several cognitive tests. Jo Beth and the doctor got along well, and the lengthy testing passed quickly. At the end, the doctor concluded that there wasn't a thing wrong. Then came the psychological profile questionnaire. Jo Beth was utterly confounded. Its designers had never considered the possibility that someone with two weird systemic autocidal illnesses would take the test. By answering Yes to all the questions about odd aches, fatigue, mood swings, and so forth, Jo Beth appeared to be a nutcase. And this is exactly how the doctor treated her after she looked at the results. She now refused to prescribe an antidepressant. She told Jo Beth to seek long-term treatment, and to seek her happy-pill prescription from yet another head doctor. |
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