#MedicalGaslighting

[chronicillnesshumor]

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

[megpie]

But seriously if any of my many drs told me they were alarmed by my imaging due to finding a *skeleton* inside my body -- I wouldn't be shocked. I'd do one of those The Office style looks at the imaginary camera of life, lol. Because it wouldn't be the dumbest thing they've said to me. 🦴💀👨‍⚕️🚑💉 #skeletons #spoonieproblems #spoonies #chronicallyill #chronicillness #chronicillness #chronicillnessproblems #medicalgaslighting #doctors #autoimmunedisease #hashimotos #adrenalfatigue #rheumatoidarthritis #liverdisease #fatigue #gastritis #ibs #chronicallyawesome #chronicpain #skeletalsystem #jointpain https://www.instagram.com/p/CpejzTZOuzV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[stimpunks]

Disability Inclusion Fund Grant Proposal

We recently applied for the “Disability Inclusion Fund Grant” and thought we’d share our answers to their questions. Table of ContentsQuestionsGuiding Values1. How has your organization’s programming and strategies used an anti-ableist framework?2. In what ways have your organization’s programming and activities built collective power to address ableism?3. What are some of the key program plans…

[supervixen87]

Going to the doctor

Today was not a good day, yes I got the referral for my eye issues, but man I got denied at first and gaslighted. I felt so insecure and small... "There is nothing wrong with me"

[zillaoftheresistance-blog]

Emergency

I desperately need help and prayers I am injured and sick and stranded at Vassar hospital in Poughkeepsie with no meds and no pants . I was taken here by ambulance today after I passed out and had a bad fall when they sent me home this afternoon after having been hospitalized since Saturday. My ex husband continues to illegally starve me out or I could hire a ride I have no food or meds or…

[raykay23]

updates from us regarding medical treatments and pain

This is mostly going to be a medical update. We had a doctors appointment on Tuesday where our primary care doctor told us that we obsess too much over our conditions, and that if she had it her way, none of her patients would be on pain medication. My palliative care team was trying to get me on Suboxone for pain. It will be a film that goes on the inside of the cheek and absorbs through the…

[autimulti]

(via Honouring the victims of medical gaslighting)

[cir-papi-di4bl0]

The post I never knew I needed to see. Greatest thing ever! 🙏🏽✨

#Trans #Intersex #Intersexuality #MedicalGaslighting #PCOS #GenderVariations #YouAreIntersexEnough

PCOS is an intersex variation, full stop. The reason that's controversial is that just accepting it as one undermines the gender and sex binaries.

The idea that we're just rare mutants that need to be fixed, or can be ignored for the sake of the majority, would further begin to fall apart. Recognizing people with PCOS as intersex makes it harder for them to treat people with PCOS like broken women.

Doctors treat their intersex traits as a malady that needs to be fixed. Even in the case of a cis women with PCOS and gender dysphoria or health issues, the treatment is so often laced with intersexism and coercion. There is no real choice given, and no affirmation of one's body as worthy of respect regardless of what it looks like.

This isn't unusual in the treatment of intersex people - people do try to hide from us the fact we're intersex (entirely, or by saying we have a disorder instead). But by not even considering people with PCOS under the umbrella, they prevent them from finding community with people like them, and advocating for themselves.

This is all to say, people with PCOS are not less intersex than other intersex people. They are just as intersex, and face all the scrutiny that comes with it. But more than that, they are integral to intersex liberation - and queer liberation overall. Your story as an intersex person with PCOS matters. We need you, and we want you with us.

May you find peace, community, and healing. May you find comfort and home in your body. May you find health and wellness. You are loved, and you belong - just as you are, and have yet to become.

Sincerely, a trans intersex person who doesn't know if it's PCOS or something else.

[itsrattysworld]

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[chronicillnesshumor]

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

[teacupsandtolstoy]

stream of consciousness/ thoughts from the in-between; the disabled hermit girl in denial & falling far behind the others out there living in the real world; trying to keep pace with a life no longer meant for her. approx 2021-2022.

Deadline/Completion Date: I’m not a complete fkn idiot. I’m not going to put a time limitation on something as important as this. Doing exactly shit like that - trying to fit my disabilities/chronic illnesses (Read: limited existence) & ADHD-hardwired way of thinking/navigating this world into a life that never quite fit right, that I could never really make work, and of course it was at a pace that I could never keep up with, leaving me behind and feeling defeated and very alone each and every time I tried my little heart out to make it work. My isolation at Balwyn Cottage and very limited social interactions outside of home or at all had this awful way of making me feel like I somehow had started existing outside of time that ticked by out there, watching people pass by my windows, faces almost distorted as if I were viewing them on a sped-up VHS tape.

The people. Busy & full with their intricate and interwoven lives. The million and one faces of humanity floating by the cottage window, every one blissfully unaware of the sickly hermit girl, hidden within the cottage, unseen for closed doors & shut garden gates - and how she ached with missing the daily ordinary of their lives. How they made moving through the world look as if they were dancing across days – their lives an artform – one that her neurodiversity could just never make sense of. She never ceases to gape in awe at the ease, the grace of movement - The people outside seem to be so inherently gifted with; the way they move effortlessly through the hours – stepping & spinning in and out of social circles, passions, learning; with the must-dos, need-to-dos, want-to-dos - beautifully burdened & blessed by the obligations & expectations bestowed.

And yet, the sick hermit girl is still to see any one of the many-faced outsiders stumble on the beautiful paths each of them cut through the day. Not one has ever missed a step.

Not yesterday. Or the day before yesterday. Nor last week. Not six months ago.

The sickly hermit girl has counted years made from the numbered days spent at the cottage window in silent wonderment at the beauty of the lives dancing across her view; at the artwork in their fluent motion, weaving through the world, navigating their paths through this life with such natural ease.

She cannot remember if everyone outside always were so teeming with rhythm & joie de vie - or perhaps everyone is a lowkey professional ballroom dancer in their spare time.

The sickly hermit girl didnt know. Even when she lived in that world, she never quite could figure out how.

Oh yes. She is envious.

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[lamajigme]

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[aajkaakhbaar]

What is Medical Gaslighting? How to remove it from Society?

Medical gaslighting is a common phenomenon in which a doctor or hospital misleads a patient, especially women, into believing that they are not ill, or that the illness is more psychological than it actually is. It can come in many forms, but usually involves doctors giving misleading information about tests and diagnoses that may lead to mistreatments or delayed diagnosis for months or even years. This causes unnecessary suffering for patients and wastes medical resources, so we need to understand what medical gaslighting is and how we can avoid it happening again in the future.

[spooniestrong]

[ID forthcoming]

We need to talk about #medicalgaslighting ...

Providers don't always take patients' concerns as seriously as they should. They minimize or try to play our concerns off as "stress" (yes, this [insert symptom here] is stressing me). This is especially true if you're a woman, a person of color, and / or chronically ill.

If you feel like your medical team isn't hearing you, there are a few key phrases you can use to get their attention — and to get them to take your situation more seriously. For instance, you can emphasize these symptoms are not the norm for you, and remind them that, while you appreciate their expertise, you are the foremost expert on what's going on with your own body.

You are not being a "difficult patient", you're advocating for yourself.

Reblog with your medical gaslighting experiences in the comments if you want to. It may help someone else speak up for themselves.

#SpoonieStrong 😷💙🥄