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No answers and higher doses

This is a man typing who has grown up believing men can cry but they shouldn't unless it's caused by extreme physical pain and even then they shouldn't mention they had cried to anyone. I found myself crying my eyes out during my commute to work following an assessment at a hospital that had left me with no answers for the many seizure-like episodes I have been having for years. Later I sat down during a break in work and realised the only times I have cried in years, besides one time when I had tears in my eyes after receiving my degree, have been following meetings with professionals following my seizure-like episodes. Despite working as hard as I can for years since being nothing with no proper schooling and an Asperger's diagnosis in my teens I reached heights I could only dream of reaching and then I was shot down following the first of many sleep-related events that have caused me to lose jobs, move locations and feel suicidal. The Assessment 28-year-old me saw a ...