Why is it so difficult for family and friends to understand the consequences of having a whiplash?

One of the hardest things about having a whiplash, it is getting to make your family and friends understand what it means to have a whiplash. There are 2 major reasons for which one should not exist in the world today but they unfortunately do. Being able to understand what a whiplash is and the consequences of having one, is really hard for many to comprehend because whiplash is not something you when looking at the whiplash injured. The "only thing" you can see is a person who is tired, lethargic, a person who is feeling ill and that is precisely what makes it difficult for many to understand. The best that could happen to a whiplash injured is that besides having a whiplash, is having a second physical damage that can be seen. It sounds ludicrous, but people need something they can see before they can understand it.! It also means that as a whiplash injured in the beginning uses a lot of energy on defense, not only against the municipality and insurance but also his or her friends and family. And this is where you as the whiplash injured must choose your battles, because there are people like you can´t convince that having a whiplash injury has big consequences. The reason I say you must choose your battles, is for one simple reason that there are people also in your immediate circle of friends and family who will not accept that you can be as injured as you say when your whiplash isn´t something they can see. This is due not so much to bigotry as it´s due to lack of knowledge. The lack of knowledge is unfortunately not due to lack of education as it´s a result of prejudices from those that should help.! We still here in 2011, have doctors who refuses to accept that whiplash is a physical injury and not a psychic injury.! This means that these doctors who are employed by municipalities and in the public system or by insurance companies is deliberately working against the recognition of whiplash and the impact that it has on a person. And this is where the battles must be fought, because if we don´t stop these so called doctors, there will still be spread by prejudice rather than knowledge which in turn will unfortunately be a part of the factors that make it hard for your family and friends to understand the consequences you wrestle with every day..

So choose your battles carefully.!