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Reply to "If you told your physician: "I have an ACE...or three or four", what would you want your doc to tell you?"

So many of my patients complain about the quick, unidirectional nature of visits to the doctor.  It is easy for me, because as a psychotherapist I have an hour to listen.  Physicians do not, and personally I always feel this.  So, opening up a discussion about early abuse is going to be fraught with limitations.  How can it occur with greater sensitivity toward the patient and where the physician isn't overwhelmed by crossing that threshold? I don't have any answers necessarily, but I wonder if a more straight forward resiliency test could help.  The one I found doesn't show how to score it, and is probably meant to be used to facilitate discussion, but what if there was a score that could help a person identify where their resiliency is supporting them and how it might be lacking, and what they might need to focus upon?  Is there anything out there like this?  For example, my score might be 8 out of 12, and it could recommend that I need a stronger support system, or that I would benefit from more physical activity or something along those lines.  It could offer resources online to learn more.

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