No, Lecter would actually make edible food out of people. They’d hire someone who was a cannibal murderer AND a terrible cook
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Unfortunately, Denner’s experience is all too common. Over a third of endometriosis patients are misdiagnosed with mental health conditions, which helps delay the actual diagnosis by over four years on average in the United States. Many patients with lupus and other autoimmune diseases have similar stories, with another study finding that 36 percent of patients reported misdiagnoses of mental health or “medically unexplained symptoms.”
Medical gaslighting, or inappropriately dismissing patient symptoms, has long been an issue in health care. But many patients say the issue isn’t just rote dismissal but doctors saying their pain is “in their head” and defaulting to diagnoses like anxiety and bipolar disorder. Mental health has thus become a “scapegoat diagnosis,” as Denner puts it, for when doctors don’t know what’s going on, causing a cascade of harm.
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Can confirm. When I went to the ER last year because I’d lost feeling from the waist down and quickly lost a third of my body weight (unintentionally!) the medical staff, during my initial intake, posited that anxiety was the cause. Turns out I had extreme malnourishment brought on by symptoms of long COVID!
I wondered if they would have made the same suggestion if I were a man.
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And when one reaches a certain age, the only “diagnosis” becomes “oh you’re approaching menopause - here, have some SSRIs”
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Seems unlikely to me.
“Anxiety” is sometimes the new “hysteria.”
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Imagine telling guys that they need to calm down and stop being testerical
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I am absolutely going to start using this to describe the reaction when a minor amount of pressure or discomfort causes an outsized distress response.
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MAGAts get testerical on the regular, about everything. That might work out very nicely!
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Sadly, that happened to my mother; she died from heart disease rather quickly after having been diagnosed with menopausal anxiety.
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And et al.
Unfortunately, this is not a clear either-or situation. Especially in our current shit show, the very tight bond between physical and mental health has become frighteningly clear. Women have, for a very fucking long time, had their pain and health disregarded and written off as hysteria. This has had the blowback where when I have kids who clearly are having mental health struggles, only to have the parents reject getting them the help they need because I am “disregarding their complaints.” Your child has constant headaches, weight loss, fatigue and labs are normal, she scores very high on our depression screening, let me get her some help. No, more CTs and MRIs are not the answer. No, more labs are not the answer. It’s a no-win situation. The mental health of our kids is crumbling and my ability to help them is being hamstrung by loss of resources and attitudes that imply that mental health issues are insulting and character flaws. I have no answers, and certainly cannot fix the abuse women have had inflicted upon them for decades, if not centuries. I just know that where we are now is killing our kids.
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All very true. My next door neighbour’s 22 year old daughter has gone off the rails while she was away at university, and is dragging her heels about seeing a doctor, so at this point, is it Bipolar Disorder, depression, substance abuse (alchohol), a trauma response, or even something with a more physical cause (even though things like BPD, depression, etc. can have a physiological component)? Hard to tell if she resists even starting the process of diagnosis.
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That’s my world, man. Retirement cannot come soon enough…
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I just learned that the first known author in any written language was a woman. Of course.
Got me thinking that the earliest written language was a lot like coding, which we women also rocked.
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Are you talking about Lady Murasaki, “The Tale of Genji”, or is there someone even earlier?
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Enheduanna, if I’m getting the spelling right. Ancient Sumerian, cuneiform. It was in a cool podcast I listened to from the history and literature site.
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Cool….TIL!
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A few minutes ago a place popped into my head that i had seen years ago when i visited Oklahoma for work. I recall seeing a place called SheBrews, made me chuckle but that was the extent of it. I looked it up just now and their story is pretty cool and i wanted to share
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