There I was, sitting in an exam room in a medical office thinking, can I just say fuck you? Because the medical professional taking my history responded to my complaint of unusually pernicious pain with this question: “On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain, with ten being that you just got hit by a truck?” I have been described as highly sensitive, with a visual imagination. If you ask me to think I've just been hit by a truck, then I am immediately traumatiz