#Stpd psychotic depression

[masquerade-flags]

Hi! If your requests are open could we ask for an Stpd + psychotic depression flag please?

Schizotypal Personality Disorder + Psychotic Depression combo flags

Using this psychotic depression flag and and mixing features from these Stpd flags 1 2 3

Also here's a bonus Schizotypal Personality Disorder flag that's a combination of the the ones I used, just because I wanted to see what it would look like:

[psychotic-tbh]

Do any other social folks on the schizophrenia spectrum also feel like they don’t know how to “people” after an episode?

It’s so strange to look back on how social I was when my symptoms were less severe and how (almost) outgoing I was

Now I’m not even sure how to talk to close friends and am just awkward. I lost my conversation skills :(

[polygamousfistingchaos]

all servers ive found for these subjects are adult only spaces or completely dead. was wondering if i should go through the trouble of making my own or not.

[featherymainffins]

You know what at this point I feel like maybe I just need to either get institutionalised again or start an internship again because I feel like I am getting nothing.

[beachf4gz]

just here to say that you have the best takes on hdb/disco elysium ever. keep doing what you do man you're awesome

also that earlier poll on whether harry is schizospec: yeah 100%. personally as a person with stpd I hc him as schizotypal and I'd love to hear your own hcs/opinions on schizospec harry

eeeee thank u hes a v important character to me so i have a lot to say abt him

this is probs j waffle but abt him being schizpec, i have always very much resonated with harry as a depiction of a mood disorder schizophrenic comorbidity. the ways in which harry is shown to see the world and how depression specifically functions within him reads to me as psychotic depression- his understanding of himself and the world around him tends to be wholistic and follow specific themes or recurring ideas that depict a detachment from reality "as it is"- the position that kim occupies in contrast to him. i see a lot of the gameplay as essentially harry having to learn to accept reality as it threatens him over and over, learning to percieve and function in the small scale of a life rather than the larger framing of the world, or of laws above the world itself, contextualised thru history and political conflict and poetry. i've seen some ppl say that harry can be read as having did- personally i dont think the skills are a good depicition of did itself or of plurality in that sense, but i think that harry is meant to be above all a person victimised by the conditions of being working class- that of exposure to stress and danger and trauma and a forceful impending hurtling into the future without any ability to control or change his circumstances, and from that i think that complex trauma, osdd, bpd, a complex mood disorder or schizophrenia can all be read into him fairly easily (however i do think the game, in choosing not to be explicit with his symptoms, depicting them in comorbidity with metaphysical aspects of the world, is actively discouraging a 1-1 psychiatric evaluation of harry. i think it is instead encouraging the framing of psychotic thought within a materialist approach to living). while i dont think he has DID i do really think the skills depict fragmentation of the psyche into functions- so something along the line of osdd- and from that its fairly easy to expand how a fragmented personhood functions to produce a fragmented understanding of reality in which there is overlay between input, or the psychotic elements of his thinking. I think the pale is potentially useful here also- the concept of delerium or total thought disorder, as information across time and location is fragmented and combined and then this delerium is presented as the opposite of life, or the opposite of reality, or the tearing of the world apart, it reads very strongly to me as feeling of *being* in a psychotic state. since DE is (imo) very concerned with the players mode of interaction being that of *being* a person (thinking their thoughts, deciding their actions, interpretting and reacting to stimuli), it kind of knocked me out to play *as* a mind in totalising thought disorder.

the constant pressure against harry's way of seeing and interpretting and placing himself within the scenes around him comes from multiple perspectives- i think kim is positioned as the cbt/dbt type approach to disordered thought in which a person removes themselves from those ways of thinking altogether and repositions themself as a person alike other people, and as a member of the larger structure of society and of humanity- to deal with circumstances and "get your shit together" as a choice or as a "function first" approach to treating "illness". i think this is positioned as flawed, but fundamentally helpful and caring in nature. I think trant/jeans approach to harry- that of attempting to figure out what is broken within the machine and diagnose, or discard, is positioned as unhelpful, uncaring and wrong. I believe this is probably advocating in some way to the player to reframe disordered thought or the seeing of grander concepts in the mundane away from psychiatry and psychiatric labels and approaches towards materialism, which i think is the intended frame the designers seek the audience to approach the world through. i think this is part of the larger marxist nature of the game- communism, marxism, leftism in general comes with a degree of allowing oneself to exit the grounding nature of their own lives and to seek to understand or see patterns, vague spiritualistic or metaphysical forces, in the world at large- and naturally it attracts and cultivates disordered thought as a result. i think in some way harry serves to demonstrate and instruct the player how to navigate living in a way that allows for material action, and for survival and happiness and the modes of being one needs to occupy to achieve those, without dismissing or undermining ways of thinking and being. idk thats a lot of words but yh basically i do think that disco elysium as a text is very interested in thought and the framing of a persons perspective, and explores both the consequences that has on a life and person as well as the metaphysical aspects that frameworking and psychotic relationality to frameworking have on the experience of being a person. i think if this wasnt something they were concerned with, harry would have been a very different character- probably one who was more defined by substance use in a traditional "outside in" depicition and not by the deconstruction of the act of being him.

i have a bunch of wayyy more specific things abt him i would like to communicate at some point but thats probs better for a time when i cba to find quotes and examples and shit XP

[anachronisticmech]

Mechs Disability Headcanons

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[a lot of these are taken from conversations with my friend @carmillatism, so please go check mech out!]

-> Drumbot Brian:

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disabilities and disorders: autism, adhd, ocd, pots, cfs, fibro, hEDS, short sightedness, tinnitus, gad, ocpd, ppd, stpd, bpd, dpd, dpdr

aids: service animal (teddy), cane, rollator, crutches, compression socks, stim toys/chewellery, anti-depressants, port

extra: fluent in BSL, faints very frequently, is very easy going on his body (probably the most out of all the mechs), takes care of others when they’re going through flare ups or meltdowns or other, both because he knows what to do more than others and because he likes taking care of people, does need help from others sometimes and has some anxiety surrounding that

-> Jonny d'Ville:

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disabilities and disorders: autism, adhd, ptsd, otosclerosis, scoliosis, arrhythmia, scad, costochondritis, fibro, nut allergies, npd, bpd, amputee, dermatillomania, pots, hpd, aspd, stpd, ppd, dpd

aids: service animal (beelzebub), cane, crutches, wheelchair, compression socks, stim toys/chewellery, epipen, hearing aid, g tube, AAC device, prosthetic left leg (from knee)

extra: stims with his guns safety a lot, is a carnivore and gets very sick/has flare ups when eating something that is not meat (can eat raw meat) but needs other nutrients through his g tube, can fingerspell in BSL

-> Ashes o'Reilly:

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disabilities and disorders: autism, adhd, asthma, costochondritis, cfs, fibro, dpdr, bpd, npd, hpd

aids: service animal (cerberus), crutches, wheelchair, nasal cannula, inhaler

extra: has a lot of asthma attacks due to smoking but doesn't stop, service animal is cerberus from udad, fluent in BSL

-> Gunpowder Tim:

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disabilities and disorders: autism, adhd, psychosis, monochromacy colourblindness, retinitis pigmentosa, cfs, fibro, bpd, hpd, npd, ppd

aids: guide/service animal (gunner), white cane, stim toys, anti-psychotics, communication/pec cards

extra: usually has a hard time being the gunner but loves just shooting at things, even if he cant completely see what hes aiming for, the aurora has braille everywhere for her to read when her eyes are particularly bad, fluent in BSL for good days when other mechs need to communicate with BSL

-> Raphaella la Cognizi:

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disabilities and disorders: autism, ocd, lupus, cfs, crohns, fibro, hEDS, bpd, npd, hpd, ocd, stpd

aids: service animal (carbon monoxide), g tube, cane, wheelchair, picc line, port, stim toys

extra: she gets very upset at not being able to do science on days where she can't do anything but will list her symptoms and experience to turn it into a small experiment, stims by pouring liquid between vials, spin is science (shes so carlos for that), fluent in BSL

-> Marius von Raum:

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disabilities and disorders: autism, adhd, cfs, hEDS, muscular dystrophy, otosclerosis, pots, bpd, stpd

aids: service animal (gizmo), electric wheelchair, crutches, port, stim toys, hearing aid, compression socks, AAC device

extra: fluent in BSL, is the most likely to cause flare ups by overworking his body (hes just silly okay)

-> Ivy Alexandria:

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disabilities and disorders: autism, ocd, neuropathic pots, otosclerosis, cfs, fibro, epilepsy, tourettes, ocpd, ppd, bpd, spd

aids: service animal (daisy), cane, rollator, crutches, hearing aids, stim toys/chewellery, communication/pec cards, AAC device

extra: fluent in BSL, spin is books and languages, is nonverbal more often than not

-> Nastya Rasptina:

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disabilities and disorders: autism, hypovolemic pots, vEDS, hEDS, chronic venous insufficiency, raynauds syndrome, vasculitis, bpd, avpd, ppd, spd

aids: electric wheelchair, rollator, cane, ng tube, port, compression socks

extra: just stays up in the vents and talks with aurora on really bad days, body cant take solids most of the time, fluent in BSL, RSL and DGS

-> The Toy Soldier:

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extra: is not real, so does not have any disabilities, but does use a cane to help stay upright, also is fluent in BSL, also uses communication/pec cards

[losergendered]

ID: a set of 8 images in 4 pairs. each has one image of the listed call of duty character, with a white outline in front of their corresponding flags, and a second image which is a blank flag splice. END ID

Ghost from Call of Duty is greysexual, greyromantic, greyplatonic, aroflux, heteroflexible and on the bi spectrum!

Konig has StPD, psychotic depression, autism, inattentive ADHD, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis!

Oni is omnisexual, cupiosexual, recipromantic and a sparkledog!

Horangi has OLD, C-PTSD and is both lovecorimasc and lovecorifem!

For anon!

[fadedlilrat]

There’s a possibility that we actually have schizoaffective instead of STPD and psychotic depression, due to various things (psychosis continuing even when not depressed, negative symptoms continuing even when not depressed, etc.)

We used to think it was schizoaffective, but we thought our symptoms weren’t severe enough for it (we’re literally medicated and have been for years)

We’ll bring this up to our therapist when we can and hopefully get some answers /w\

-Abyss (he/that thing) + Nova (she/her)

[entity56]

I am beginning to think that, instead of STPD, I have something along the lines of either psychotic depression or schizoaffective disorder. I will need to start tracking my symptoms.

[hauntedselves]

rambly personal post

before my CL-self was murky, shifting. now its solidly a black low-content German Shepherd wolfdog. male. i feel like his name is Zephyr or Apollo or something. my werewolf form is grey though, not sure why. also trans, though biologically male when just a dog.

i know my psych is right when she says "if its not causing undue stress it doesn't need to be pathologised" but i wish she would assess me for a psychotic disorder. im sure i have stpd and i want to know if i qualify for any other psychotic disorder - delusional disorder, schizoaffective… i wish we could do like a marathon 5 hour session where we do tonnes of assessments and discuss it and i get diagnosed with all my mental problems ever, on paper. i guess i could just ask her hey want diagnoses do you think i have but that's. too forward. too diagnosis seeking.

i sometimes wish i could see a new psychologist (in addition to, not instead of my current psych) and just come out with all my psychotic and messed up thoughts and see what they say. just throw it all at them and see what they get out of it.

im glad my psych doesn't pathologise every little thing under the sun, but i wish she were more diligent in diagnosing - and sharing those diagnoses. ive asked multiple times for her notes but she just says they wont make any sense to me. i dont care i still want to read them!

lowkey tempted to write up a list of my self dx'es and reasonings why and just send that to her. i guess its one way to get a reaction out of her (even that sentence sounds too attention seeking!)

even things like. we've talked about trauma so much and shes said the words "complex trauma" multiple times, but never if i warrant a diagnosis of cptsd. on a healthcare form she once wrote "childhood trauma" as a diagnosis… what does that mean? thats not a diagnosis, its a cause! (she also wrote depression, despite us almost never talking about depression, though i do have it)…

i know im over focusing on labels when that isnt the focus of therapy. (and when the diagnostic part of the psych field is fucked). but labels can be nice to have, especially when you're clearly exhibiting symptoms of specific diagnoses and yet no diagnoses are mentioned…

maybe ill just email her. "what dx's do you think i have heres the ones i think i have and why. please advise" …

update: i've drafted a big email basically saying "here's my self dx's and why, what do you think". not sure if i'll send it or not, but it's a good self-reflective exercise anyway?

[molsons112000]

I believe a lot of those white males who became serial killers had sexually transmitted diseases which cause mental instability.... So I believe Jeffrey Dahmer contracted a sexually transmitted disease which caused mental instability.Which moved him towards becoming a serial killer and then he could have caught many other diseases as he ate the body of gay people....

So what can we do go back and take out Ted Bundy's body and Jeffrey Dahmer's body. If they're still around or their Ashes and tests for sexually transmitted diseases.

The New York Times

www.nytimes.com

Milwaukee Jury Says Dahmer Was Sane

Feb 16, 1992 — Dahmer had used a condom while having sex with some of the bodies. The prosecutor cited his desire to avoid sexually transmitted disease as ...

Wikipedia

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Jeffrey Dahmer

Although he was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), schizotypal personality disorder (StPD), and a psychotic disorder, Dahmer was found to be ...

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What diseases were found in Egyptian mummies?

Egyptian mummies are an ideal population in which to study the prevalence of infectious diseases in the ancient world. Infectious diseases in ancient Egypt. Some of the most common organisms found in Egyptian mummies were Schistosoma haematobium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and variola virus.Aug 23, 2022

https://www.thelancet.com › fulltext

Current monkeypox outbreak: lessons from ancient history in Egyptian ...

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc

CT Scan of Thirteen Natural Mummies Dating Back to the XVI- ...

by E Petrella · 2016 · Cited by 30 — ... tests to evaluate the status of preservation of bony and non-bony tissues. ... sex diagnosis using

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

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Indications and diagnostic value of bone marrow examination in HIV ...

by I Abdullah · 2021 · Cited by 7 — Bone marrow examination is a useful diagnostic tool in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients

So you will see below.You can do a bone biopsy to test for different types of infections.And that means you can test for sexually transmitted infections in these dead serial killers bodies.... So they should go back and test these serial killer bodies if they are still around for different diseases... The see if there is a correlation between their madness like mad cow disease like you can get from rabies....

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc

Indications and diagnostic value of bone marrow examination in HIV ...

by I Abdullah · 2021 · Cited by 7 — Bone marrow examination is a useful diagnostic tool in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients

Also we should be checking the food supply for rabies and this is another reason that you can't have businesses that their food supply chain isn't examined for infectious diseases. That's why they had the outbreak of mad cow disease in great britain....

Yes, rabies can cause mental state changes, including anxiety, confusion, and agitation. The term "rabies" translates to "madness", and the disease can cause a range of mental states, from maniacal 

excitement

 to dull apathy. Rabies can also cause other emotional effects, such as mood changes, sleep disturbance, 

loss of appetite

, stress eating, depression, panic attacks, and 

compulsive behavior

. 



Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

What are the signs and symptoms of rabies? | Symptoms | CDC

The first symptoms of rabies may be similar to the flu, including weakness or discomfort, fever, or headache. There also may be discomfort, prickling, or an itching sensation at the site of the bite. These symptoms may last for days. Symptoms then progress to cerebral dysfunction, anxiety, confusion, and agitation. As the disease progresses, the person may experience delirium, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), and insomnia. The acute period of disease typically ends after 2 to 10 days. Once clinical signs of rabies appear, the disease is nearly always fatal, and treatment is typically supportive.



End Rabies Now

How Does Rabies Affect Mental Health?

Apr 27, 2022 — Although exactly how each will react is impossible to predict, the possible emotional effects range from mood change; sleep disturbance; loss of appetite, or stress eating to depression, anxiety, panic attacks, and compulsive behavior. Some individuals are so troubled that even after receiving prompt prophylactic treatment, they turn to sedatives in an attempt to ease their anxiety. And since anxiety can go on even after it seems like they're out of the woods, they should seek mental health counseling, especially if loved ones feel they have developed a drug use disorder. Veterinarians.



Britannica

Rabies | Definition, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment, & Facts

Feb 26, 2024 — The mental state of a person infected with rabies varies from maniacal excitement to dull apathy—the term rabies means “madness”—but soon the person falls into a coma and usually dies in less than one week owing to cardiac or respiratory failure. Sometimes rabies is characterized by paralysis without any evidence of excitation of the nervous system. In such cases the course of the disease may be prolonged to a week or more. There is no cure for rabies. The incubation period (the time that elapses between the bite and the first symptom) is usually one to three months but in rare cases has been as long as several years.

Rabies is a viral disease that infects the 

central nervous system

 of its host. The first symptoms of rabies are often similar to the flu, including weakness, discomfort, fever, or headache. As the disease progresses, symptoms may include:

cerebral dysfunction, anxiety, confusion, agitation, delirium, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), and insomnia. 

Once symptoms appear, the disease is nearly always fatal, and treatment is typically supportive. Death usually occurs two to ten days after first symptoms. 

Rabies is preventable through vaccination. It's spread to people through close contact with infected saliva via bites or scratches. 

This is for informational purposes only. For medical advice or diagnosis, consult a professional.

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As the disease progresses, the person may experience delirium, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), and insomnia. The acute period of disease typically ends after 2 to 10 days. Once clinical signs of rabies appear, the disease is nearly always fatal, and treatment is typically supportive.

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What are the signs and symptoms of rabies? | Symptoms | CDC

Yes, mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE) is transmitted through the food supply in the United Kingdom. The disease is caused by contaminated cattle feed that contains the prion agent, which is an infectious form of protein. The feed is made from the remains of other animals, which is why BSE is also known as an "efficient" factory farming method. The disease is spread to young calves when they eat the feed, which amplifies the outbreak into an epidemic. 



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About BSE BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) | Prion Diseases

There is strong evidence and general agreement that the outbreak was then amplified and spread throughout the United Kingdom cattle industry by feeding rendered, prion-infected, bovine meat-and-bone meal to young calves.



NCBI

Reporting Foodborne Threats: The Case of Bovine Spongiform ...

In the early 1980s, Stanley Prusiner, the author of this chapter's first paper, proposed that the pathogens that cause two TSEs—Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and scrapie, a disease of sheep—consist entirely of an infectious form of protein that he termed the prion; in 1997, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work on prion biology. Researchers have since learned that in addition to scrapie and CJD, prions cause BSE and its human variant, vCJD, as well as chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.



WebMD

Mad Cow Disease: Symptoms, Causes and Treatments for vCJD

Feb 6, 2024 — It also may have come from products from sheep with a prion disease called scrapie. The outbreak spread in the U.K. because young calves were eating prion-infected meat-and-bone meal. Cows don't get BSE from being near other cows that have it. But it can be transmitted through the food supply. An outbreak of mad cow disease peaked in the U.K. in 1993, with about 1,000 cases every week. By the end of 2015, the U.K. had recorded more than 184,500 cases. But BSE is a lot less prevalent now, with only two cases reported in the U.K. in 2015. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has tested hundreds of thousands of cattle for BSE.

NCBI

The legacy of BSE - PMC - NCBI

We do know that it took hold in the UK's national herd because of an “efficient” factory farming method introduced as far back as 1926, when cattle were first fed the remains of other animals. We also know that it was feed containing meat and bone meal made from BSE-infected tissues which amplified what would have been a small outbreak of the disease into an epidemic. BSE has left a remarkable legacy, not least in the form of a cautionary tale that still has the power to chill. As the mysterious disease spread through the UK's dairy herds, ministers and officials did all they could to deny there was any risk to human health.

University of Rochester Medical Center

Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) - Health Encyclopedia - University of Rochester Medical Center

The disease is related to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which is fatal to humans and caused by eating infected cattle products. A case-control study of 132 vCJD cases in the UK found that eating beef products that may contain mechanically recovered meat and head meat, such as burgers, meat pies, and sausages, increases the risk of developing vCJD. 

The outbreak peaked in 1993, with about 1,000 cases every week, but by the end of 2015, the UK had recorded more than 184,500 cases. BSE is now less prevalent, with only two cases reported in 2015. Some say that England and the rest of the British Isles is now the safest place in the world to eat beef. 

So john wayne gacey was molested as a young child and he could have contracted a sexually transmitted disease during this rape.....

Biography

https://www.biography.com › crime

John Wayne Gacy: Biography, Serial Killer, Killer Clown

Jun 16, 2023 — Gacy was molested at a young age by a family friend and contractor, and between ages 10 and 12, Gacy and a friend were accused

So this is why we have large violence in the black community as well Because of the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases..... And black people should be number one against LGBTQ because of the large amount of incarceration of their population and of white people were Asians have very low rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Prisons with high concentrations have high concentrations of LGBTQ activity. So these prisoners became infected and they get released out into the community, and they're never tested in prison before.And then they're released and have sexual relations spreading the disease through the white black community Very few asians ever go to jail......

History.com

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America's Forgotten Mass Imprisonment of Women ...

Mar 27, 2019 — STIs were a hated epidemic, and sex workers, often incorrectly blamed for spreading most STIs, served as popular

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc

Sexually transmitted diseases in the USA: temporal trends - PMC

by SO Aral · 2007 · Cited by 117 — Chlamydia and gonorrhoea screening and treatment in jails may lead to reductions of chlamydia and gonorrhoea in the community.

Jstor

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Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the AIDS Era

by SO Aral · 1991 · Cited by 247 — countries the three classic venereal diseases-gonorrhea, syphilis and chancroid-have nearly disappeared. Throughout Europe, Australia, New Zea.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

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Factors that Contribute to the Hidden Epidemic

by TR Eng · 1997 · Cited by 5 — The Hidden Epidemic: Confronting Sexually Transmitted Diseases. ... Studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s ... Sexually transmitted diseases in prisons and jails ...

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Tracking the Hidden Epidemics, Trends in STDs in the United ...

by HE HIDDEN — Approximately one-fourth of dia, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, human these new infections are in teenagers. And while

So having so many people put in jail for non.Violent crimes like drug related sales transportatit has unbelievably cause the boom of all forms of sexually transmitted diseases and of all forms of communical diseases.... They don't test somebody before they put them in prison. They need to isolate them if they have a contagious disease.But when they put him in prison, they don't test them before they go in the prison and they contaminate the inmates and spread disease.And then that disease is released back in the population...

They sold all this to canada exporting massive amounts of disease to canada's hospital system..... Some got sold in the United States.But this spread disease and are they the only prison that sold plasma.... Is there are other prisons around the world selling plasma? 🤔 And this is why organ donations from prisoners You have to be very careful and check em for all kinds of Contagious diseases... Even if they go to Medical school their corpses. Those corpses carrying contagious diseases may, Infect, the medical students. You see below the sale of plasma spread disease throughout the united states and to any other country we sold it to..... These were shut down after 1982, but they were spreading massive amounts of disease prior to 1982...... And that means there should be class.Action lawsuits against the states against the medical institutions and against the companies that took and were responsible for distributing the plasma without checking it for diseases.... So any of those people that were affected could sue these organizations..... And Health Insurance companies should be helping these individuals. Sue individuals that contaminate them.... Because they want to get their money back for the damages.Those individuals Cos 2 the institutions and making sure the individual is compensated correctly.So health insurance companies should be behind this movement.... Because this cost health insurance companies greatly and costs life insurance companies greatly and disability insurance companies greatly... As these diseases made them sick made them disabled and killed them affecting all forms of human insurance....

Through interviews and presentation of documents and footage, Duda alleges that in the 1970s and 1980s, the Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and HIV.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki

Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal - Wikipedia

And this is the problem with the illegal organ trade market as those organs can carry diseases.....

In the early 1980s, the FDA and CDC alerted the public about AIDS, and most prison plasma programs shut down. In December 1982, the FDA asked companies that made blood products not to purchase prison plasma, since many inmates have either injected drugs or engaged in homosexual acts, making them high risk for AIDS. 

Salon.com

Blood money | Salon.com

Dec 24, 1998 — Most prison plasma programs shut down in the early 1980s, when the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control alerted the public about AIDS. In December 1982, the FDA asked companies that made blood products not to purchase prison plasma, since many inmates have either injected drugs or engaged in homosexual acts, making them high risk for AIDS. The large pharmaceutical companies that were buying from Cummins stopped buying inmates' plasma, a once-valuable commodity because of the large volumes produced each week.

However, some prisons continued to sell plasma to blood brokers, such as Continental Pharma Cryosan Inc. in Montreal, Canada. In 1982 and 1983, at least 72 units of questionable plasma collected from five Arkansas inmates were sold to the company. 

The Arkansas prison system profited from selling blood plasma from inmates infected with viral hepatitis and HIV between 1982 and 1994 at the Cummins Prison in Grady, Arkansas. Prisoners “bled” in exchange for $7 to $10 per donation, and tainted blood products were distributed internationally. It is alleged that thousands of people became infected with hepatitis C as a result. 

In 1983, the FDA initiated an international recall of plasma likely tainted with hepatitis B, and Cryosan learned that it had been buying plasma extracted from prisoners. 

Those that work with dead bodies like corners Forensic people as well as medical students are realright hire risk of transmission From the dead body to them these below diseases and so Countries that have high levels of these diseases Medical schools should be much more careful and social hospitals and doctor's offices.

Dead bodies can pose a substantial risk to health in some cases, such as when someone has died from 

cholera, hemorrhagic fevers, or other infectious diseases. However, dead bodies from natural disasters or armed conflict usually do not pose a health danger to communities. This is because victims who have died from

trauma, drowning or fire do not normally harbor organisms that cause disease. 

World Health Organization (WHO)

Risks posed by dead bodies after disasters

Feb 6, 2013

World Health Organization (WHO)

Dead bodies from natural disasters and conflict do not generally ...

Sep 15, 2023 — The bodies of people who have died following wounds sustained in a natural disaster or armed conflict almost never pose a health danger to communities. This is because victims who have died from trauma, drowning or fire do not normally harbour organisms that cause disease with common precautions. The exceptions are when deaths occur from infectious diseases such as Ebola or Marburg diseases or cholera, or when the disaster occurred in an area endemic for these infectious diseases.

Dead bodies may contain blood-borne viruses such as hepatitis viruses and HIV, and bacteria that cause diarrheal diseases, such as shigella and salmonella. However, these viruses and bacteria do not pose a risk to someone walking nearby, nor do they cause significant environmental contamination. 

People who routinely handle corpses may risk contracting tuberculosis

bloodborne viruses (eg hepatitis B and C and HIV), and gastrointestinal

 infections. The WHO recommends that workers handle corpses by: Using gloves once only and disposing of correctly, Using body bags, Washing hands with soap after handling bodies and before eating, Disinfecting vehicles and equipment, and Being vaccinated. 

So again medical schools should be very careful and they need to check the animals they're working with as well......

So anyone dealing with dead bodies or anyone in the medical field should be checking and this is why everybody must be mandatory to do full blood work, including the sexually transmitted diseases.If not that everybody in the hospital system the healthcare system is at risk... And the people in the patient's office when they come in are at risk... So it should be mandatory.I think some my annual health check ups... I think there should be full blood work done twice a year.And I believe that we need to move to a buy annual health screening system.... Why we catch things faster? That means they can't incubate for as long and people would live.... I believe a year is way too long.... I believe we need to go to biannual..... And I believe this will help catch all forms of disease earlier..... And that means survival rates from all forms of disease meaning all forms a cancer will go up...... Because yes we can do a lot of blood screenings for different forms of cancer... But we also need to do lymphatic system samples for cancer's way.. I believe if we take a sample of blood with a sample of fluid from the lymphatic system we can catch all forms of disease in the beginning because they'll show up in one of the two systems...

World Health Organization (WHO)

https://www.who.int › ... › Topics

World Health Statistics

Related indicators · HIV – New HIV infections (per 1000 uninfected population) · Incidence of tuberculosis (per 100 000 population per year) ·

Now they can do needle biopsies as part of the Biannual health screening to detect forms of diseases Going with blood work.

This means they use a thin needle to draw cells and fluid out of the lymph node. This is called a fine needle aspiration or needle biopsy. They send the sample of cells to the laboratory to find out if they are cancerous.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org › ...

Testing your lymph nodes | Nasopharyngeal cancer

National Institutes of Health (NIH) (.gov)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc

Lymph Liquid Biopsy for Detection of Cancer Stem Cells - NCBI

by M Han · 2021 · Cited by 6 — Combined lymph liquid biopsy through cannulation of lymphatic vessels and TDs was developed for testing

Samples taken for cancer blood tests are tested in a lab for signs of cancer. When viewed under a microscope, the samples may show the actual cancer cells. Other blood tests might find proteins or other substances made by the cancer. Blood tests can also tell your provider how well your organs are working.Mar 10, 2022

https://www.mayoclinic.org › cancer

Cancer blood tests: Lab tests used in cancer diagnosis - Mayo Clinic

So both blood and lambetic fluid tests can test for cancer in the body. And I believe they should do both. It can test for all forms of diseases if you take both Lymphatic fluid and blood...

Blood tests can help diagnose cancer by identifying chemicals and proteins in the blood that may be higher than normal when cancer is present. However, blood tests alone cannot diagnose cancer. When used with other cancer diagnostic tests, like imaging, blood tests can help detect abnormalities and guide a diagnosis. 



Moffitt Cancer Center

Can Blood Work Detect Cancer? | Moffitt

May 3, 2022 — Aside from leukemia, most cancers cannot be detected in routine blood work, such as a CBC test. However, specific blood tests are designed to identify tumor markers, which are chemicals and proteins that may be found in the blood in higher quantities than normal when cancer is present. One common example is the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, which measures the level of PSA in the blood. An elevated level of PSA—a protein produced by the prostate gland—may be a sign of prostate cancer.



Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Lab and Blood Tests for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment

Blood tests play an important role in diagnosing and treating cancer. Not only are blood tests useful in determining overall health, including kidney and liver function, but the presence of certain chemicals and proteins in the blood can also help your doctor diagnose cancer. While blood tests alone cannot be used to diagnose cancer, when used with additional cancer diagnostic testing such as imaging, they help to detect abnormalities to guide a diagnosis and help determine appropriate treatment options.

Some blood tests used to diagnose cancer include:

Complete blood count (CBC)

: Measures the amount of each type of blood cell in a sample of blood

Electrophoresis blood test: Looks at the various proteins in your blood to find the ones made by your body's immune system

Tumor marker tests: Use a sample of blood to look for chemicals made by cancer cells

Some common tumor marker blood tests include:

Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA) Testing

Detects the presence of an antigen that is not normally present in the blood of healthy adults

AFP (Alpha-Fetoprotein) Testing

Detects the presence of an antigen that is not normally present in adult men or non-pregnant women

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test

Measures the level of PSA in the blood, which may be a sign of prostate cancer 

Some multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests look for certain pieces of 

DNA or proteins from cancer cells. If these are found, it might mean that the person has cancer, and it might also show which organ the cancer started in. The Galleri test is available by prescription through a doctor and costs $949. A study published in 

the New England Journal of Medicine

 in March 2024 showed that the Galleri test correctly detected 

colorectal cancer

 in 83% of people confirmed to have the disease. 

So doing a lymph node fluid biopsy with ultrasound to detect breast cancer....

When the area is numb, they put a thin, hollow needle attached to a syringe through your skin. Then they take a sample of cells. They might take samples from more than one area. You will feel some pressure on the armpit, and it can sometimes feel uncomfortable, but it isn't usually painful.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org › ...

Lymph node ultrasound and biopsy – under the arm (axillary)

A doctor may perform a 

lymph node biopsy

 of the 

armpit

 lymph node to determine if cancer cells are present in the breast cancer. The 

sentinel node

 is the first lymph node in the armpit and is where breast fluid drains into, making it the first node that breast cancer could spread to. During the procedure, a surgeon may inject a radioactive substance or blue dye near the tumor to locate the sentinel node. The surgeon then uses a device to detect 

lymph nodes

 that contain the radioactive substance or looks for lymph nodes that are stained. The surgeon usually removes 1 to 3 nodes to see if they contain cancer cells. 



Cancer Research UK

Surgery to remove lymph nodes from your armpit

Nov 28, 2023 — The sentinel node is the first node in the armpit, where the fluid drains into from the breast. This means it's the first lymph node the breast cancer could spread to. Your surgeon usually carries out a sentinel lymph node biopsy during the operation to remove your breast cancer. You have about 1 to 3 nodes removed to see if they contain cancer cells.



National Cancer Institute

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy - NCI

Jun 25, 2019



Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Breast Cancer: Lymph Node Biopsy

This approach saves many women from the most troublesome potential side effect of more-extensive surgery: swelling of the arm, known as lymphedema. For women who have a mastectomy, removing the underarm lymph nodes is necessary if they contain cancer cells. However, research shows that removing the sentinel lymph ...

During the procedure, the doctor will:

Clean the skin

Apply a 

local anesthetic

 to numb the area

Insert a thin, hollow needle attached to a syringe through the skin

Take a sample of cells

Remove the needle

Close the 

incision

 with stitches and apply a bandage or liquid adhesive 

The procedure can take 30 to 45 minutes. You may feel some pressure on the armpit, and it can sometimes feel uncomfortable, but it isn't usually painful. You should let the doctor know if it is painful, you may need more local anesthetic. 

After surgery, you may have a buildup of fluid where lymph nodes were removed, called seroma. Your body will reabsorb the fluid, but it may take some time. You should call your doctor right away if the area becomes painful or shows signs of infection, such as redness, warmth, or tenderness. 

You usually get the results within 2 weeks. 

[psychotic-tbh]

Does anyone else’s mental illness mess with their spiritual beliefs, and if so, how?

Not looking to be converted or debated. :0

[chronicmenippean]

It's totally chill, I'm not on here a lot so I also have a late response for you that was hopefully worth that wait

From what I've gathered,

Paranoid PD's common co-occurring PDs are: NPD, AvPD, BPD, and StPD; other comorbidities are MDD, Alcohol use disorder, Substance use disorders, Agoraphobia(anxiety disorder), and OCD(also an anxiety disorder); Some risk factors for PPD are relatives with schizophrenia or delusional disorder, persecutory type(source); or childhood trauma, those with PPD are more likely to have experienced physical abuse, but not sexual abuse(source) In the diagnostic criteria, specifically Criterion B, it states that the symptoms cannot be exclusive to a psychotic episode(like that of Schizophrenia(psychotic disorder), a major mood disorder(bipolar or depression) with psychotic features, or another psychotic disorder); and is not attributable to the physiological effects of another medical condition.

Schizoid PD's common co-occurring PDs are: StPD, PPD, and AvPD; and those with SzPD are at higher risk for MDD; There's a higher risk for those with relatives who have schizophrenia or StPD (Also, I noticed that SzPD seems to have similar symptoms to the Negative Symptoms of schizophrenia) Similar to PPD; in Criterion B it states that the symptoms cannot be exclusive to a psychotic episode(like that of Schizophrenia(psychotic disorder), a major mood disorder(bipolar or depression) with psychotic features, or another psychotic disorder; and is not attributable to the physiological effects of another medical condition; with one difference: if one is Autistic they cannot be diagnosed with SzPD due to the fact that they present similarly but require dissimilar treatment: Autism SD is a neurodevelopmental disorder, a multifaceted condition characterized by differences in cognition, communication, behavior and/or motor skills resulting from abnormal brain development; Schizoid PD is a Personality Disorder, which entails long-term marked deviation from cultural expectations that leads to significant distress or impairment in at least two of these areas: The way one perceives and interprets themselves, other people and events, and is a possible antecedent to a psychotic disorder; Thus they require different treatment(which is further complicated by Autism's very close relationship with Schizophrenia as a whole, literally used to be 'Childhood Schizophrenia' and that Autistic people have a 3.55x chance to develop schizophrenia; not to mention that most with Autism are more likely to exhibit symptoms similar to Schizoid than the general population(source))

Schizotypal PD's common co-occurring PDs are: SzPD, PPD, AvPD, and BPD; more than half of those with StPD will have a history of at least one major depressive episode, and there might be an increased risk for suicide(source); There's a higher prevalence of StPD in those with relatives who have schizophrenia (Also, as an addition to the previous note I made with SzPD having similar symptomatology to the negative symptoms in schizophrenia, I've noticed that StPD seems to resemble the Positive Symptoms of schizophrenia, but not quite meet the criteria) Very similarly to SzPD, Criterion B states that the symptoms cannot be exclusive to a psychotic episode(like that of Schizophrenia(psychotic disorder), a major mood disorder(bipolar or depression) with psychotic features, or another psychotic disorder; including the fact that it can't be diagnosed if one is Autistic, but shows no mention of any physiological attributes from another medical condition, I assume this is due to the disorder being characterized mainly by social disturbances and cognitive/perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior, which aren't very relative to physiology I find it important to mention that Autistic people are also very likely to relate to the symptomatology of StPD, to the point where their symptoms can be hard to differentiate(source)

If you want more information I'd recommend looking into the relationship between schizophrenia/autism/bipolar disorder(specifically bipolar I), psychosis, schizoaffective disorder(AKA schizophrenia with a 'major mood disorder' AKA bipolar(mania and/or depression) or unipolar depression(and if you get into bipolar research, you should look into unipolar mania and it's connection with Seasonal Affective Disorder), and the other personality clusters, how those relate to each other, and how those disorders relate to other groups of disorders For example, Cluster A has the association with Schizophrenia, Cluster B has associations with Mood Disorders, and Cluster C has associations with Anxiety Disorders; not to mention that ASPD has a very prevalent association with psychopathy(1/3 people with ASPD are psychopaths) and BPD having a very real possibility of being a neurodivergence that only gets diagnosed once it's become a significant issue(usually after sexual abuse in early childhood)

But yeah, this is most of what I know and could find on Cluster A and comorbidities associated with those PDs, hope this helps

Does anyone know if you can be diagnosed with more than one cluster a pd or is that heading into a schizophrenia dx

[boom-kaka-laka]

Karen™: "you shouldn't search up the *insert mental illness here* tag, it'll only make your symptoms go worse"

*me, a person searching comfort by reading about other people's experience with similar symptoms*

[psychosispsositivity]

Psychotics are beautiful

Schizophrenics are gorgeous 🌷

Schizoaffectives are dazzling 🎀

Bipolar psychotics are exquisite ⚜️

Depressed psychotics are grand 🌼

Traumatized psychotics are radiant 🦄

Anxious psychotics are sublime 💐

Delusional psychotics are charming 💜

Schizotypals are marvelous 🦋

All psychotics are beautiful! 💖

[nyndelion]

this tuesday i’m finally getting my psych diagnosis but i fear its gonna be like “well, we can’t tell you what exactly is your disorder/neurodivergence unless you get assessed for autism and that’ll cost you a lot of money and you wont be able to do it so.... i guess you have anxiety”