thank you for this game, it was very good.
i've suffered with lower back pain since i was 16, i am now 20. it took me months for me to get my first physiotherapy appointment, to essentially be asked "have you tried stretches before?" (....what do you think??? yes- i have!)
typically because back pain is so common i was brushed off, but the pain got to the point i couldnt sleep, struggled to do uni work, relax and i would struggle to walk normally. i also felt that at this age back pain is not common- it typically happens when youre older, so i felt very distressed that i was experiencing this at a young age. i also worried about what the underlying cause was, what if the cause of this pain was something serious?
this was made more difficult by the fact i am someone who is scared of the doctor and has a lot of anxiety surrounding seeing a doctor. i would have to push myself A LOT to just get in contact, i would try to be really brave, just to be brushed off when i finally built the courage to ask for help after suffering for ages.