This resonates with me so much .. I used to think I was helping doctors by giving them as much detail as possible. It'd list all my symptoms, even minor ones, t

This resonates with me so much .. I used to think I was helping doctors by giving them as much detail as possible. It'd list all my symptoms, even minor ones, thinking that it's giving them the complete set of information to work from, that the more data I gave them about what's going on, the better their diagnosis would be, the better they'd be able to help me. In reality every time I did this they universally started to look at me odd, as if I was making things up, or overly anxious, or a hypochondriac, etc. When you list minor symptoms they interpret it as "this guy is complaining about nothing issues" and they start to write you off. It's infuriating when you give them all the symptoms, both major and minor, and they respond afterwards by just latching onto the minor issues and waving them away and telling me not to worry about it. There's just such a barrier to communication in such circumstances.