Tricia was in her early twenties when her skin started to itch. “I scratched a mark into the back of my ear,” she shared. She was horrified when the university physician accused her of purposely injuring herself. “She wrote it in my file,” Tricia shared. “My life flashed before my eyes.”
“I was going to school to be a teacher and now a doctor, who wasn’t even in the examination room with me 10 minutes, was going to put that accusation in my personal file. I scratched a mark into the back of my ear.”
Tricia said her skin would itch when she was in the heat. The scratching resulted in scrapes on her arms as well. “I left the appointment in tears.”
Not wanting a report of self-injury in her records, Tricia went to the board of directors. “They told me I had to be seen by the school psychologist. He did clear me, but I have never overcome how quickly these accusations came about.”