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.
@arianek@rhymeswithvery Yep. I’ve had good medical experiences (around 5%), and they literally just do their job. No fighting for care. No fighting to be believed. Accurate documentation. Easy for everyone involved.
It makes me think that being so exceptionally shit takes actual effort.
Once you understand that ‘anxiety’, ‘stress’, and ‘functional’ are part of medicine’s defence machine, so many of your medical experiences will make sense.
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:
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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.