Hello! Day, what, 120-ish of the global COVID-19 pandemic and I haven't written a post since March 27th when I talked about accepting this BS situation we're in. I guess I've been kind of distracted. Today I'm not here to talk about COVID. Except at the end and not in a way you'd probably expect. Today I'm here to tell you why you don't have access to a psychologist who specializes in helping patients living with chronic digestive diseases. My kids have been playing a shit-ton of Minecraft I've been at this "psychogastroenterology" thing since 2005, when I was a wee pup in my 2nd year of graduate school. Before we even had a name for the field, rather we were just a few clinical psychologists with training in chronic diseases (i.e. clinical health psychology) that noticed many people with GI conditions needed a lot of help navigating things. And the stigma, oh the stigma, especially toward patients with irritable bowel syndrome. It w
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