Cee

Calling out bullshit in medicine, weaponisation of psychiatry, family abuse.

Interests: Systems of power, behavioural economics, epistemology.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

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.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@AnilvanderZee @louise_today @hannahspierMD I’m beginning to think our best strategy forward is to just ignore it and not defend, justify, or explain. Starve it of oxygen. Drown it in data.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

It is, in all likelihood, yet another paid-for PR piece flimsily disguised as journalism.

It’s rhetoric, not science journalism.

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

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.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

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.

[Alan Levinovitz @AlanLevinovitz]

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:

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@awgaffney @AlanLevinovitz Might as well tell people to go shove a crystal up their arse and meditate in a headstand under the moon whilst they’re at it.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@vi_toka Insanity.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

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.

[🌙biomimic🐾🍉 @iseeuliars]

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.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@PipeweedSmoker @TheGriftReport I agree. What I’m saying is the accountability system is broken which is why they keep doing it.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@mjawakened @WhyNotNow1221 Let us know how you go with thinking your way out of death when the time comes

[Cee @AetherFox_]

Honest question: Why do families abandon their sick family members?

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@tink_ina “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@lltbr123 @TheGriftReport @jamesmurray_ldn @Keir_Starmer @NHSuk It’s systemic violence against the same group, over and over and over again.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

Hard agree. These were classic obstruction signs.

Unfortunately the litigation process is seriously retraumatising for family and no amount of compensation will ever be enough for the needless destruction of yet another young woman’s life.

Medicine has a serious, serious problem.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@stevedoc22 @TheGriftReport I’m curious about what trends you have noticed in patients/care of patients that experience avoidable poor outcomes in ERs

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@hannahspierMD It’s almost as if they’re actually sick. 🙃

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@ErikaB4Him @end3of6days9 It comes down to one thing: disrespect.

[Claudia A. Merandi @CMerandi]

Thank you for being truthful about cognitive behavioral therapy

CBT is dangerous

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@AlanLevinovitz @louise_today @WIRED It’s called survivorship bias, Alan.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@NoHealthNoFun @LongCovidFight @sunsopeningband Walk away and don’t look back.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@x3r0gx4 It’s disgusting.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

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.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@AlanLevinovitz @louise_today @WIRED It means the post-viral illness ran its course, as it sometimes does.

[Cee @AetherFox_]

@AlanLevinovitz @WIRED It looks like you have embarrassed yourself, Alan.