Aether Fox

Documenting failures in the medical system
Interests: Systems of power, behavioural economics, epistemology.

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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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Would love to know because this happened to me.

Worked bloody hard at my mental health my whole life, finally hacked it and realised my mental illness was my abuser, walked away with the help of somatic therapy, was doing much better, then BOOM, post-surgical complications, severe medical PTSD, loss of independence, vulnerable to the abuser again.

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hey whats it called when you break out of your depression and start becoming a better person and then something happens that retraumatizes you all over again and your mental health takes a nose dive and you end up right where you started

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@dimareca Yuuup.

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@arianek Same. Pure utter hell.

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@The_Exit_Code Do they do this consciously or is it subsconscious manipulation because they’ve don’t it their whole lives

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@Cr0nut77 @AlobhaPatrick Missing the point. The discipline itself has catastrophic capacity for harm.

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@cubbi10284 @AlobhaPatrick Yep. Information-mining to justify discrimination and kick people who are already down.

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@AnsamGroshong Hard agree. They literally just make shit up. Are they repressed novelists or something? Bad ones at that, because it’s always the same character. The hysterical somatising woman.

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Person with a chronic or atypical illness - how many times have you been psyched?

How did you get rid of all the bullshit psych lies in your record?

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@Seafoam_Dream You’re like me

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@AnsamGroshong Exactly the same as me. It’s insulting, demoralising, and dangerous.

To correct it I’d have to sit down and correct every letter.

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@AnsamGroshong That’s how I feel. In need of protection around them.

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@X10Jordan Yes the omissions!!! I don’t place any stock in clinical letters anymore. Give me the fucking source material (bloods, scan files, surgical records, etc).

Even those can be dodgy, like addenda suddenly reversing a prior pathology interpretation.

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Mental health care is inherently coercive, because the claims are unfalsifiable.

If something about you threatens a system, model of thinking, or individual practitioner’s sense of superiority, they can have you defamed and locked up.

[Ex mental health nurse 🦘🐨 @Australia_MH]

Gaslighting - a common tactic used in healthcare, prevalent in mental health practice. Used against both patients and whistleblowers.

Denying a reality or distorting a truth to make a person doubt their own perception, memory, or sanity. Also used to discredit them or convince others they are crazy.

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@dankyourmrminor Thank you

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No one around me believes the severity of the pain.

No one around me believes the evidence, of which there is bucketloads.

No one around me believes that the medical system is corrupt and doctors conceal rather than disclose their errors.

Why?

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@byowife @halcionandon @sadfoxqueen It’s so fucked I can’t stand it.

I don’t understand how there’s no legal mechanism that can step in and protect her?

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Refused investigations even with severe antibiotic responsive pain and some markers of severe infection. Yep brought the surgical reports and images. I had been misdiagnosed with endometriosis by a surgeon which didn’t help. But even I as a layperson looking at those surgical images can tell that was not fkn endometriosis.

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It’s dawning on me that I’ve been coded as Munchaussen’s for the past two years, and that’s why I’ve been denied care in emergency departments for a post-operative infection.

The sorts of questions they asked. The disbelief.

My streptococcal serology continues to rise along with the severe pain at the prior operative site.

How I could possibly have done this to myself, or want it, or want to have unstable housing and lose my career, friends, home, dating, mobility, and exist in terror and anguish, is utterly beyond me.

How the hell do I fight this.

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In exactly the same position with myself. I know my case inside out. I know exactly what needs to happen. Drs can’t be fucked and pretend nothing is wrong. They have no problem throwing my life in the bin over it.

Utterly devastating and difficult to believe. I am so sorry you are going through this too.

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@evelio_prieto Excellent that this is being addressed.

Fungi seem to be the great forgotten microbe, but remain relevant in a post-pandemic era.

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@KarynATetrault I share experiences with other harmed or ostracised patients and we have very similar experiences.

And yes, the healthcare system is carceral and persecutory, particularly towards certain populations.

Have a nice day.

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@KarynATetrault It warrants being thrown in the bin.

It has destroyed too many lives.