Amanda Burrill: Fighting For Yourself When Doctors Won’t
I'll Go First® with Jessica Minhas
English - January 20, 2020 19:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness purpose hope mental health mental health awareness trauma recovery addiction depression healing sexual assault chronic illness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Veteran Navy Officer, endurance athlete, and traumatic brain injury survivor, Amanda Burrill joins us on this episode. She shares her experience of being misdiagnosed for over a decade and how she fought for her healthcare rights. We discuss what to do when we are told our symptoms and experiences aren’t real, how to get the help you need and deserve and how Amanda's perspective on what success looks like has changed following her injuries.
In this episode, Amanda Burrill joins us. She is a veteran Navy Officer, an endurance athlete (2x Ironmans and 19 marathons!) and a traumatic brain injury survivor. Amanda shares her health journey from being misdiagnosed to fighting for her rights for proper health care. She shows us how to advocate for our own health when we are told our symptoms and experiences aren’t real and how her perspective on what success looks like has changed following her injuries.
Connect with Amanda at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaburrill/
Follow Amanda's adventures at
https://unchartedlifestylemag.com/
https://www.instagram.com/amandauncharted
Learn more about I'll Go First at https://www.illgofirst.com/podcast
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