“…the way endo and related health problems tend to begin in the girl’s puberty, when she is so young and still very much in the process of developing her sense of self, often has devastating consequences for her self-esteem…”
“…Her physical pain is then enveloped with emotional pain, confusion, the sense that she is a bad girl with a problem that shows she is inadequate as a person…”
“As one nurse wrote the association, “Too many physicians make their female patients think their problems are psychological when they aren’t - which becomes almost a self-fulfilling prophecy…It would spare many women’s self-esteem if their doctors would admit they don’t know what’s wrong rather than suggesting psychological causes for physical symptoms.”
Mary Lou Ballweg and The Endometriosis Association,
The Endometriosis Sourcebook.
Lincolnwood, Illinois: Contemporary Books, 1995.
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