I do not take no for an answer on my journey to complete healing.

The kind of no worth pushing on is usually administrative. A referral that never got sent. A letter lost between two departments. A six-month wait that turns out to have a cancellation list nobody mentioned.

Persistence inside a system is unglamorous and it works: ringing back, asking who exactly is responsible, writing the name down, asking for the second opinion you are entitled to. That is an entirely different thing from arguing with a diagnosis, and it is where most of the leverage anybody actually has is sitting.