#a good psych doesnt demonise certain diagnoses
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hollowedskin · 10 months ago
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Love the fucking reasoning of ableists.
Oh yeah do you go to the doctor because you're feeling great with no problems? No you go because you're having fucking symptoms and you think you have the flu by deductive reasoning, and want that either confirmed or denied (and correctly diagnosed) based on the information you give and the doctor being your official expert on questions about health.
Why is it suddenly different for neurodivergency? Nobody goes to a therapist because they have no issues and aren't being impacted in their lives. Fuck OFF.
a while ago i attended this lecture on autism. guy in the audience said he had many of the symptoms that were presented and asked what should he do to get treatment and possibly a diagnosis. instead of answering his question the psychologist went on a tangent about how “the clinic reigns all powerful over guesswork”, and how actually it has become a trend amongst little children on the internet to claim that they are autistic for cool points, and that this hurts real autistic people. no she didn’t tell him how to get his symptoms looked into, she just made it very clear that to her, aknowledging your own symptoms is bad and evil and hurts the poor real mentally ill people.
an ex-friend of mine, then a psychology major and by now probably a full psychologist, once lectured me on how horrible and bad it was that i told her “i probably have some sort of neurodivergency”, and that if i were her patient she would never give me a diagnosis because “you aren’t like this now, but i know that if you get a diagnosis you’ll use it as an excuse to start treating people badly. that’s just how mentally ill people are.”
same ex-friend was extremely disgusted when she found out that fans sometimes make neurodivergency headcanons for characters that have the same symptoms as they do, and that authors sometimes write books with neurodivergent protagonists in stories that don’t focus on that (ex: she seemed horrified that percy jackson has adhd?)
multiple psychologists i’ve seen on facebook agree that they should refuse to treat patients that say “i’m here because i have symptoms of a disorder and wonder if i have it”, and that a patient should arrive to a psychologist as a blank slate.
school psychologist asked me how i was feeling about my trauma situation and i told him i thought my friends would leave me. instead of addressing the issue he said that that no i didn’t, that i was lying, that i had searched “bpd symptoms” online and now i was faking symptoms because i wanted to have bpd, that he shouldn’t have told me he suspected i had a personality disorder because now look what was happening. no, i didn’t search bpd symptoms online. yes, my friends left me, it was a completely founded belief and not a symptom, let alone a faked symptom.
so the next time you hear someone saying they’re “anti self-diagnosis” i want you to understand what they’re saying. what they’re saying is:
- i don’t want people to be aware of their own symptoms
- i don’t think my patients should have access to any information that doesn’t come from me
- i don’t think neurodivergent people should learn how to cope with their symptoms and live “normal” lives
- i think neurodivergent people should be denied a diagnosis because the moment they get one they will become evil and dangerous
- i don’t think people who don’t look like a stereotype could possibly be neurodivergent, even if they have all the symptoms, so i think they are faking it for attention and should be denied treatment
#pro self dx#i dont fucking care if someone wants to say they have cptsd for cool points or whatever#i dont beleive that person exista#because guess who was researching ptsd for a fiction idea im highschool and got read for dead by the fucking symptoms list#like no one WANTS debilitating symptoms and fucking#ableism and discrimination and being treated like you cant make your own decisions any more#anyone who does decide to do that for kicks probably has somethint ELSE going on!#theyre looking for help!#neurodivergent folk arent not self aware#im.so fucking aware#a good psych will be pleased that you are self aware enough to go 'hey my auditory hallucinations are getting bad i think im headed#in a bad way soon#can we schedule more appointments/a stay in hospital now before it becomes a crisis“#they fucking love that. they love not having to watch you fall to peices first#they love not having to lead you to the idea that you might not be going well because thats fucking progress babey!#a good psych doesnt demonise certain diagnoses#a good psych doesnt refuse to see certain diagnoses based on steriotyping#a good psych works WITH you#and a good psych and any good doctor#doesnt have a fucking god complex about having to be the all and only source of information#when i thought i might have narcolepsy my psych said#i think its fatigue but sure ill write you a referral and we can cross it off the list if that will help you#it was fatigue#but it did help#the idea of having the problem be fixable with medication was something i needed to check out#and he knew that was important to the acceptance process for me#and i now know i can trust him with thinfs like that#anyway#i wish i could photocopy my psychiatrist and my wonderful GP snd give everyone a copy so they would be treated well and respectfully
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