#...but in my experience too many people use psychosomatic as a way to distance themselves from helping the person suffering...
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Actually, it's insane that "psychosomatic" is so often:
1. not neutral
and
2. actively used to undermine, discredit, and sometimes even bring scorn to somebody's condition
Imagine going through so much stress, for example, that it's eating you from the inside out and being told that you've just got a case of Crazy Idiot Who Makes Things Up For Fun to Inconvenience Us and Get Attention.
#mental health#ableism#ableism tw#and sure maybe you can use psychosomatic as a neutral description for a condition that is partially cause or exasperated by mental health...#...but in my experience too many people use psychosomatic as a way to distance themselves from helping the person suffering...#...because then it is THEIR fault. THEY decided to Fake and to Believe They Are Unwell and THEY should be punished...#...it should solely be up to them to better themself and stop Inconveniencing Everybody Around Them
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