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Mar 3
Everyone is all pro ‘mental health’, until you actual live it and discover that a psychiatric diagnosis, however benign, will mean you are stripped of any credibility and will never be treated like a human being again in your healthcare.
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Jun 11
Doctors really, really need to start familiarising themselves with the very basic medical concept that a not insignificant proportion of the population does not mount a typical immune response to infection.
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Jun 11
Particularly after a mass immune disrupting event (novel zoonotic virus or pandemic scale).
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Jun 10
Behavioral medicine is the corruption of medicine by the cult of clinical psychology
Jun 8
I posted a reel about a pt having cops called instead of being treated in ER for pain. The comments are horrific. Patient story: "had kidney stone pain they threatened to admit me to psyc ward i left" How long are we going to pretend this is normal in the name of "prevention"?
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Jun 10
They farm this information on purpose so they can actively deny care/abdicate from doing their job. It’s heinous.
It directly led to my being maimed and disabled.
Jun 8
as soon as you have mental health on your medical records,
forget ever being taken seriously for medical health issues
absolutely sickening how this has affected my life over the years. I can imagine how many people die because of stigma
sometimes I wish I never told a soul
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Too often ‘therapy’ means encouraging empathy/understanding of the abuser’s traumas and taking ownership for your ‘part’ in the abuse so you don’t get abused again. All wrong. Perpetrators make the choice to abuse and you have no ‘part’ in it - all ‘parts’ belong to the abuser.
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Jun 6
Since almost no physicians are performing this professional duty, I now assume that they are mostly just clock-punching health care workers and not the health care professionals they claim to be.
This pandemic has revealed a lot of people for who they are.
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Jun 7
Half the people who are sick do not even need to be sick, doctors just refuse to treat them.
I can’t even get a f*cking serious infection treated in this system.
It’s not healthcare; it’s health abuse.
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Jun 5
Once you understand that ‘anxiety’, ‘stress’, and ‘functional’ are part of medicine’s defence machine, so many of your medical experiences will make sense.
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Jun 4
It is, in all likelihood, yet another paid-for PR piece flimsily disguised as journalism.
It’s rhetoric, not science journalism.
Jun 3
The problem with articles like the Wired one is LongCovid patients aren’t the intended audience. These articles aren’t meant for us. They are for our families, our doctors, our employers, & our elected officials, & they are used to harm us.
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Jun 4
I am going to say this one more time for the people up the back.
People claiming that ‘mind-body’ ‘cured’ their Long Covid most likely simply experienced the post-viral illness running its course.
Occam’s razor.
My latest feature for @WIRED is about long Covid. It focuses on extremely sick patients who believe they recovered, partially or fully, with the help of "mind-body therapies."
But it is ALSO about why featuring these patients leads to the kind of reaction you see here:
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Jun 3
Exactly 💅
They also appear to be suffering from delusional paranoia about malingering and factitious psychosomatic disorder by proxy.
They exhibit fixated beliefs that are contradicted by verifiable fact.
They appear to benefit from secondary gain in not having to smash two brain cells together, do their jobs, or be held accountable for mass destruction of human life.
What’s that? You don’t agree? That’s evidence of your disorder.
Jun 3
Ppl who NEED to believe that malingering and faking are a huge problem—one that overshadows by far the actual gaslighting and malpractice and dearth of effective treatments ppl with Long C0VlD and ME endure—just need to retrain their brains out of their hysteria fixation.
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Thank you for being truthful about cognitive behavioral therapy
CBT is dangerous
Cognitive behavioral therapy teaches people that they are the problem and not the system.
They use gaslighting and brainwashing techniques to achieve these goals.
It's really bad because it's implanting trauma.
That's how you give people a tick.
They might never undo the damage.
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Jun 2
It's DARVO, & it was first used against patients with chronic pain.
Deny.
Attack.
Reverse Victim & Offender.
It's a very common, predatory tactic employed in medicine today.
It needs to be confronted & eradicated entirely, especially in healthcare.
Don't back down.
Jun 2
This defense mechanism is called projection and leads to a DARVO-dynamic,
though the perpetrator,
often selectively informed, and not able to proportionally weigh and discern the content matter,
honestly feels he's doing the right thing.
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“Nervous system dysregulation” = “False illness beliefs” = “Anxiety” = “Female hysteria”
It’s all the same idea rebranded endlessly by operatives paid by corporates, disability insurers, & austerity gov’ts to stifle the acknowledgment that these conditions require *capital*
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Biopsychosocial model zealots who insist that chronic illness patients can heal themselves through sheer willpower fall into the same category as health insurance companies denying ppl lifesaving healthcare as far as I’m concerned.
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Jun 2
Anyone else had the thing where continued deterioration after repeated failure to diagnose and appropriately treat has been reframed as ‘over-medicalisation’ and then you get barred from care?
I hate it here.
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Jun 2
Comments.
She was told for 15 years that her severe dizziness, racing heart, and near-fainting when standing up were “just anxiety”… until she finally received a real diagnosis: POTS — a cardiovascular disorder involving orthostatic intolerance.
In the video she reads the actual medical notes from her psychiatrist visit after an ER trip in 2022 — notes that labeled her symptoms as help-seeking, help-rejecting, and even suggested avoiding hospitalization because it might promote dependence.
Have you or a loved one ever felt dismissed by doctors when you knew something physical was wrong?
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Jun 1
Honest question: Why do families abandon their sick family members?
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Jun 1
I think I’ve arrived at my own answer to this, which is that it’s convenient.
To justify it to themselves and cope with the moral injury, they will come up with a narrative or frame along the lines of “x is not trying hard enough/not doing the right things/mentally ill/brought it on themselves.”
It remains appalling.
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I feel like ten years ago that wouldn’t have happened. The spread of ‘FND’ has been like a successful parasitic plant.
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