This exactly. Most people, including medical professionals, don't have the time or interest to actually, really listen to you - nor enough understanding to not

This exactly. Most people, including medical professionals, don't have the time or interest to actually, really listen to you - nor enough understanding to not require going into explaining detail and patterns. They are there to fairly poorly observe, ask a set of questions based on their observations - use responses by people who are less than fully self-aware and likely don't have the best self-observation skills either, and then prescribe - but not there to learn or understand; I'm convinced this role will be replaced by adequate diagnostics and AI within the next 10 years, save the institutions, unions, etc. trying to self-protect to save their jobs if they're not willing to adapt (and not require such a high salary for what ultimately will be a technician role - and training the system and protocol will be the role of serious researchers). I do however have seemingly infinite amount of time to talk, share, and explain my story in depth if they are willing, wanting, and curious. I am in this difficult position right now regarding doctors not understanding, and behaviour and decisions not being so much critical thinking and reason based but behaviour based on indoctrinated knowledge that's skewed by the medical industrial-institutional complex: in brief, my chronic pain causes severe executive dysfunction - and only recently was I able to try a dopamine agonist which is the only medication that's helped the pain and very significantly reduce the executive dysfunction - but only starting at .5mg dose, however I have only been able to get a .25mg daily dose after trying with 5 different types of doctors - including pain management doctors - because dopamine isn't commonly used for pain, it's "somehow" slipped out of part of their practices - much like how MDMA was demonized for many decades and now MAPS.org has proven its extreme effectiveness in treating things like treatment resistant PTSD; MDMA which can't be patented, so what better way to kill competition than a drug war. Anyway, I have been struggling to see a neurologist and/or neurosurgeon - primarily as I am in Canada and the system is very slow - who apparently are the types of doctor who are less conservative when it comes to medications like dopamine agonists; used to treat people with Parkinson's for their tremors (and ~80% also have pain issues that it helps with), and also research shows dopamine helps improve executive function in people with Alzheimer's as well. The pain level and executive dysfunction level has me struggling daily however, life is very hard just waiting when I know just having a higher dose of cabergoline would greatly alleviate symptoms, so I've now initiated seeing a neurosurgeon and neurologist when I go to San Francisco for December. I'm right fucked if a neurologist or neurosurgeon won't prescribe me a higher dose - and unless a good samaritan points me to how to buy it from a black market - then come the new year I will be done trying to fight; I've looked through tor browser those sites don't seem to sell cabergoline - a little surprising as it would seemingly pair well with other sex-related enhancers that are popular, since it can aid in reducing refractory period - I guess it's just knowledge that's little known. Edit to add: I'm only "on the ball" so well this morning because I took .25mg last evening, so I have just that much more dopamine in my system helping me focus away from the pain - not be so distracted by the pain - which I only get to do once per week, the leftover of .25mg daily (1.75mg) leaving .25mg remaining of my 2mg weekly prescription; and I got two other important emails written and sent this morning, whether they lead to anything it doesn't matter - I just knew I needed to send them and I could instead of pain disrupting me from being able to put them together.