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~Spooki 🖤

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I really hope people get the joke of my blog name like I really do because I just think it's so much funnier if you can HEAR his voice saying it.

[thefiresontheheight]

In the animal kingdom sexual mimicry is a common way for males to gain access to females for mating purposes. Human males were given the gift of not only cognition, but reason, and introspection. Yet some still perpetuate the lie of a female soul rather than accepting you are simply perverts. Social conditions just prevent you from owning up to it.

Oh shit that’s how you know I’m a woman cause I have neither reason nor introspection! Just utter p-zombie up in here.

[chicago-geniza]

it always seems like overkill to qualify that i have real bad asthma when asked about covid symptoms but if i don’t i inevitably arrive at the appointment like, wheezing & coughing & short of breath & the medical staff look at me like i just signed their death warrant lol 

[bigrhet]

“Hey kid, want some ghost?”

[medblrforlife]

Concerning dismissiveness of medical symptoms & possible psych disorders

So with the pandemic there has been an increase in incidence of some psychiatric conditions and/or exacerbation of symptoms in patients with existing psychiatric conditions. However, at a friend’s hospital department the residents and/or fellows (can’t remember if both or just fellows) are using this as a way to do two things, both of which are unacceptable:

1. assume conversion disorder/psychogenic symptoms/functional disorder unless proven otherwise 

2. say “oh it’s just psychiatric disorder x” and immediately adopt a dismissive attitude towards patient, patient’s family, and patient’s symptoms.

Okay so first of all, I’m just a pre-clinical med student and even I know you don't make a psychiatric diagnosis until you’ve ruled out the non-psych medical  conditions that could be causing the symptoms. So you assume NOT psychiatric until proven otherwise, not the other way around. If this is confusing, please try reading ANY diagnostic criteria in the DSM. 

Second, symptoms don't suddenly become any less real, significant, severe, or life-impairing once they are determined to be of psychiatric origin. An epileptic seizure and a non-epileptic event are both physical convulsions that impair quality of life, affect ability to perform daily tasks, and can cause distress to the patient and their loved ones. If someone has excruciating physical pain, it still exists whether it is phantom pain in a limb that's no longer there or pain in a leg that was just squashed by some heavy object. The treatment may be different, but neither condition is more “real” or more “worthy” of treatment than the other.

Third, don’t dismiss patients with a history of psychiatric conditions and refuse to evaluate them when they have new symptoms. Everybody can get sick with physical illnesses, regardless of whether or not they have a history of psychiatric diagnoses. Please examine your patient before calling for a psych consult.

Furthermore, if a patient's symptoms could be due to a life-threatening condition but you assume they are psychogenic and dismiss the patient, they could die of that life threatening condition. Oh, and by the way, psychiatric disorders are also life threatening. So get your head out of wherever it's been hiding, assess the patient properly, do your job, and remember that psychiatry is a MEDICAL specialty, psychiatrists are MDs/DOs, and the diseases they treat may kill more patients than anything you treat so stop dismissing their whole specialty and their patients.

Sincerely,

An exasperated, and frankly appalled, medical student

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