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And I didn’t know why so many doctors couldn’t answer these basic questions
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And I didn’t know why so many doctorscouldn’t answer these basic questions

Unrest • 2017
And I didn’t know why so many doctors
couldn’t answer these basic questions

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And I didn’t know why so many doctors couldn’t answer these basic questions.
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7 seconds
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17
Timestamp in Movie
00:44:55
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama, history
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When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
Doctors want to know what to do but it’s not in the textbooks of medicine. - Unrest 00:06
Doctors want to know what to do but it’s not in the textbook...
'What’re we supposed to do?' You know - Unrest 00:07
'What’re we supposed to do?' You know
In the United States we're still graduating class after class of medical students - Unrest 00:12
In the United States we're still graduating class after...
The name, this Chronic Fatigue Syndrome name, has been part of it. - Unrest 00:06
The name, this Chronic Fatigue Syndrome name, has been part ...
And let me be a feminist for a moment: being a woman is part of it. - Unrest 00:05
And let me be a feminist for a moment: being a woman is part...
Eighty-five percent of the people with this illness are female. - Unrest 00:06
Eighty-five percent of the people with this illness are fema...
It’s an idea as old as written history. - Unrest 00:05
It’s an idea as old as written history.
The Egyptians thought it was caused by a wandering womb. - Unrest 00:06
The Egyptians thought it was caused by a wandering womb.
The Greeks blamed sexual deprivation. - Unrest 00:05
The Greeks blamed sexual deprivation.
Sigmund Freud? Repressed memories. - Unrest 00:05
Sigmund Freud? Repressed memories.
Some lessons of childhood can become the source of illness which has no discoverable basis in physical condition. - Unrest 00:09
Some lessons of childhood can become the source of illness w...
Today what we'd like to do is to demonstrate the mechanism known as conversion reaction. - Unrest 00:08
Today what we'd like to do is to demonstrate the...
Our patient is a young woman, she had some rather puzzling symptoms. - Unrest 00:07
Our patient is a young woman, she had some rather puzzling s...
We now call hysteria “functional disorder” or “conversion disorder,” - Unrest 00:12
We now call hysteria “functional disorder” or “conversion di...
I hear from women all of the time who were later diagnosed with fibromyalgia, - Unrest 00:14
I hear from women all of the time who were later diagnosed w...
80% of autoimmune disease patients are women. - Unrest 00:07
80% of autoimmune disease patients are women.
I can’t help but wonder if that’s why we’re disbelieved. - Unrest 00:06
I can’t help but wonder if that’s why we’re...
Feelings of more than usual tiredness, nervousness, and discomfort - Unrest 00:11
Feelings of more than usual tiredness, nervousness, and disc...
The problem with psychosomatic diagnoses is that they can never be proven. - Unrest 00:07
The problem with psychosomatic diagnoses is that they can ne...
They are names we give to illnesses when we can’t find a biological cause but that doesn’t mean there isn't one. - Unrest 00:09
They are names we give to illnesses when we can’t find a bio...