Missdiagnosed

10/21/2026

For years, Barbara Palvin thought the sleepless nights on her bathroom floor were just how periods worked. The Hungarian model and Victoria's Secret Angel, married to actor Dylan Sprouse, says she was going to her gynecologist every year and being told nothing was wrong.

On the Wildmen podcast her husband cohosts, she described how bad it got while trying to get a diagnosis: "I would throw up from the pain, and I would be drenched in sweat. I would have to change shirts." She said no medication touched it, and the answer was always the same. "Oh, no, you're fine, you're fine. It's just [your] period."

She says doctors told her to change her lifestyle, work out more, strengthen the muscles. Before she saw a specialist, she was managing on six pills a day.

The problem, she later learned, was that endometriosis can't be caught in a routine checkup. After she was advised to see a specialist, she had laparoscopic surgery in June 2025 for both endometriosis and adenomyosis, a related condition where that tissue grows into the uterine wall.

"It's like day and night. The difference is so, so crazy," she told E! News backstage at the Victoria's Secret show that October.

She was careful to add that the condition is still under-researched and that the operation fixed the symptoms, not the disease. "Surgery is not a cure for it. But it helps the symptoms."

She and Sprouse had timed the surgery on purpose, scheduling it before they started trying for a baby. "We knew that we wanted to get pregnant, but we also knew, because I have endometriosis, we knew we wanted to get that surgery done before we start trying," she said.

Doctors told her the window right after surgery tends to be the most fertile. The couple welcomed their daughter, Sylvie, around Labor Day this year, and Palvin returned to the Victoria's Secret runway roughly six weeks later.

Her advice to anyone who recognizes the symptoms: don't assume a yearly checkup would have caught it. "If you suspect that you could have endometriosis I encourage you to find it out. It helped me a lot, and I'm grateful I did it."

10/21/2026

To the men who love women with endometriosis:
You cannot take away all her pain.🎗️
But you can make sure she doesn’t have to carry everything that comes with it alone.

💛 Send this to someone who needs to understand.

5 ways to love a woman with endometriosis:
1. Learn about her disease without making her teach you everything.
2. Take over household responsibilities during a flare without waiting to be asked.
3. Believe her pain, even when she looks perfectly fine.
4. Support her through appointments, treatment decisions, and recovery.
5. Defend her need for accommodations, even when she’s not in the room.

Thank you Dylan Sprouse for raising awareness and being an example to men everywhere

May all endometriosis women have more support and the love of those advocating for them

10/20/2026

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🚨 According to Research about our Brain:

This is for the person who chose gentleness when hardness was easier and more available.

Who has been through enough to justify the closing. Who has the specific and personal evidence, accumulated across enough genuine experiences of what the world and the people in it can do, that a more defended and less open orientation would be a reasonable and perhaps even intelligent response to the available data.

Who has looked at that data and made a different choice. Not because the data is wrong. Not from the innocence of someone who has not yet been tested. From the specific and deliberate decision of someone who has been tested and has found, in themselves, a specific refusal to allow the testing to produce the version of themselves that the testing was oriented toward creating.

Who has remained soft in the specific and chosen sense of someone who has the scar tissue and the intelligence to be otherwise and who has decided that the otherwise is not the version of themselves they are willing to become.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin, whose research on the neural basis of compassion and its maintenance found that the sustained extension of genuine warmth and openness in people who have experienced significant personal pain required the continuous and active engagement of the prefrontal cortex's regulatory systems to override the amygdala's learned threat responses, found the biological cost of what this person is doing.

The sustained gentleness after genuine hurt, Davidson found, is not a passive state. It is an active and metabolically costly choice that requires the ongoing engagement of the neural systems most associated with prosocial behavior against the pull of the systems that were calibrated toward self-protection by the experiences the person has been through.

Researcher Dacher Keltner at the University of California Berkeley confirmed that the neural systems most associated with genuine warmth and openness required active daily maintenance in people whose threat responses had been significantly activated by personal experience and that the maintenance constituted genuine neural work regardless of how effortless the gentleness appeared from the outside.

The softness is not weakness.
It is not naivety.
It is the most specific and most demanding form of strength available to a person who has enough information to be otherwise.

And the daily choosing of it, against the pull of everything that the experience has calibrated the nervous system toward, is a form of courage that does not announce itself because it wears the face of ordinary warmth.
But it costs what it costs.
Every single day.
And it deserves to be recognized as exactly the demanding and deliberate and specific form of strength it actually is.

10/16/2026

ENDOMETRIOSIS PAIN IS OFTEN REPORTED AS WORSE THAN A HEART ATTACK KIDNEY STONES
CHILDBIRTH OR EVEN APPENDICITIS. AND CAN YOU IMAGINE SOMEONE STILL TRYING TO FUNCTION THROUGH THAT LEVEL OF PAIN?
OH RIGHT... WE DO.

10/14/2026

Yes, let's talk about it! Love this as an effective tool for endo pain management and neurological balance! It doesn’t prevent lesions. 💜💜💜💜💜

10/13/2026

It's genuinely been hard for me to pop online lately, and that's my body talking to me. I must listen! And do this in smaller doses than I want, but it's a must for all the work I've invested in healing past trauma.

Online hate hits HSPs like an earthquake. Overstimulating!!!! Overwhelming. It takes my breath away in a matter of five minutes. I feel for anyone who can't jump off and is locked in for love, but leaves feeling charged and amped.

This causes me to shut down and burn out from unwanted expectations of how we're expected to be for others, or the demands people put on strangers to feel whole.

Right now, I'm utilizing my healthy coping tools and practicing the skill of regulation.

Some people turn to chaos to feel in control, but I can’t relate. I see the pain it causes—and how much more harm it does than good.

Boundaries are essential to survival in a world that teaches people they can treat others however they want to get what they want.

I choose to think and live differently. I won’t follow anyone blindly, no matter their colors or cloak.

When the world around me feels lost and immoral behavior seems normal at every turn, I find peace in choosing to be a good human—and protecting our peace and love at all costs.

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10/08/2026

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Sending love and light to everyone doing the inner work to become better today: You bring the awareness and sensitivity this insensitive world needs. Love and light to you!

10/08/2026

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