#neuropsych

[olliegolliegee]

i don't even watch house md but i wish he was my doctor.

the amount of doctors who've referred other people when they were supposed to be the solution and figure out what was going on?

and then had nothing new to say?

(neuropsych shit)

SCARY. i'm exhausted

this isn't even goofy anymore i'm just ranting :(

Doctors should snark at each other more, be a bit mean. Not for no reason, mind you. But if five doctors blow me off about symptoms and doctor number six FINALLY runs actual tests and gets a diagnosis, I think it should be Doctor Six's right to call up the other five and tell them they're lazy pieces of shit. That should be socially encouraged. Those first five doctors clearly can't listen to patients, but maybe another doctor might finally get to them.

[obsmontessori]

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[wyrmoftheweb]

the dichotomy of "free healthcare is slow and paid healthcare is fast" is absolutely fucking false. guess who is waiting well over 4 months to have an introductory appointment with a neurologist (for its very scary and dangerous seizures) and has to pay out its ass for it.

[lixel-5]

BAFFLED me when i found out normal people mean things like “i love you” and “i miss you”

i did NOT know those were actual things people felt and not just formalities

don’t even talk to me about romance, i cannot process platonic feelings

[msburgundy]

i do not want to read about another stupid brain scan study as long as i live

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Interesting. Don’t necessarily think I’m autistic but I have more going on than just ADHD and I’m not sure what that is.

[paperairplanesopenwindows]

i'm struggling with the *gestures* everything but hey! my neuropsych diagnosed me with ~magical childhood~ and that's something.

[longeyelashedtragedy]

anyone here who has ADHD and has successfully developed a sort of fitness routine? i'm not talking about "OMG IF I DON'T GO FOR MY RUN I'LL DIE," or any kinds of cardio, but in terms of like some casual weight lifting, strengthening routines (the kind of stuff you can do at home.)

i've been pretty successful at whipping the executive dysfunction and poor regulation of stimuli into shape for other things, but i can't seem to establish this, and i'm really fucking tired of being in meh shape, i would like to be stronger 😞

note that i'm virtually always listening to a podcast or youtube video or something bc i can like barely put shoes and socks on in a timely manner sometimes bc of how often i suffer from understimulation! so the fix is more than "put on something interesting for your mind," cause i basically always am! the day when i can get self care and organizational tasks done without Entertainment is a very rare and good one.

[bredforloyalty]

once again kind of fucked academically so i guess i will idk reblog some poasts .

[chicago-geniza]

[Guy who has been disabled for their entire adult life]: Holy shit I forgot how awful it is to be disabled in the social model sense (there are zero public restrooms in Chicago and cops will arrest you or be called on you for vomiting in public) (that and epilepsy + its public response were why I developed clinically significant agoraphobia. Like my agoraphobia is inextricable from the medical-carceral complex and how disability is responded to in the public sphere)

Like I have gastroparesis and epilepsy in a city with no public bathrooms where the social norm in public spaces is to call the police on someone having a seizure. If I wake up feeling Bad I am terrified to leave my house. And I am a white person who usually gets granted "benefit of the doubt" in these situations. Still. I've been tackled and arrested while seizing, had cops follow me into the restroom, been handcuffed in the ER because I couldn't talk and was presumed "threatening." I literally have PTSD mostly from the criminalization of Being Disabled In Public + the curtailing of supportive infrastructure lol

[ravynfyre]

sometimes, i really just want to dump all this shit in my head out and... watch it ooze all over everyone, i guess. but that would be really shitty of me.

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

after by reject by almost everyone who do adult neuropsych in state (mind you one of US state with better health care quality & availability), because see nonverbal (and regression) and run other way (some don’t take insurance telehealth but mostly nonverbal part)…

finally start be refer to children’s places…😅

reality of adult nonverbal (w regression) here…

[ileftherbackhome]

hey you!

are you going in for a psych testing appointment and are worried you won't be believed???

here's the way the scale system works for mental illness diagnosis. to keep it simple, lets say its a 0-5 scale.

0-2 (never to occasionally) are considered NORMAL VALUES. it doesn't matter if u select 2 on every single question, it rings up as WITHIN NORMAL.

3 would be mild version (sometimes, 3-4 x a week)

4 would be moderate version (often, 5-6 x a week)

5 would be severe version (nearly or every day)

DO NOT make the mistake of saying "oh my anxiety is not that bad, its only occasional." once again, 0-2 is considered normal!!!!!!!!!! do not try and be conservative with your answers. be truthful. if you're always anxious every single week several days a week, thats AT LEAST a 3 . yes, even "mild" "well controlled" anxiety disorders are at a 3.

this has been a PSA.

[lixel-5]

talking to a therapist for the first time was magical because i would say something like “no matter how much i want to do something my brain won’t let me” and she just says “executive dysfunction” and like

omg

i don’t have to EXPLAIN the terms, i can say depersonalization and she knows. i don’t have to tell her i’m ten feet away from the conversation, she just knows

[gisellelx]

Twilight Advent Calendar, Day 5

Dec. 5 - What is each Cullen's favorite college major so far? What new major should they should try someday?

Masterpost/Prompts

Jake: got bored while Renesmee was in medical school. He started at what was at the time Paris Diderot in math, hoping to shore up for a Mechanical Engineering program eventually. He sidetracked into programming, and after he finished his short course, started working on Ruby on Rails. It feels a lot like working on cars, including the triumph of getting the thing running.

Renesmee: hasn't experienced multiple majors yet, so her medical studies are it. She wanted some distance from her grandfather's preference for trauma medicine (plus, she feels a little inferior in that her human half makes her a little less bright and a little less fast than her father or grandfather) and was originally headed for obstetrics until COVID hit. She's proud of having been able to be of such great use during the hardest parts of the pandemic, but like many doctors, she's burned out and is thinking about just straight up pursuing French literature the next go-round.

Bella: Also hasn't had lots of time to pursue many degrees but she worked her way through the content of a bachelor's degree while Renesmee was growing up in Forks, and then felt comfortable with Edward's offer to forge a transcript for her so that she could take an M.Phil at Cambridge in English Literature while Renesmee was in medical school. She's joked to Edward that she'd like to study neuropsych so that she can understand his messed up head better, but the longer this joke has been going on, the more she thinks she'd actually like to do it.

Jasper: loves history and has taken several degrees in it. He wanted to become a specialist in the American Civil War but he kept getting into fights with his professors (once the Cullens had to move because he was ranting so hard about what the Civil War was actually like that he tipped several people off). So he's actually an expert in the Almohad Caliphate and has two very obscure books on the topic published by almost unknown university presses. He also enjoys philosophy, especially Eastern philosophy, but has not done advanced work in it. He's the only person apart from Carlisle in the family to have published books.

Alice: took one one of her greatest challenges in hiding her vampirism to study dance under one of Balanchine's top students in the 1970s. She doesn't care much for formal education, but she's thought she might like to pursue a degree at the Fashion Institute of Technology the next time the family lives in the area.

Emmett: moved with Rosalie to Knoxville for a brief stint in the 1990s, where he studied kinesiology. Like Alice, he doesn't much care for the value of formal education, but he has a degree from the University of Tennessee and he's damn proud of it. If he does more than just hide in college sometime again, he basically just wants to go back there. In addition to Maria, he's a big reason the Cullens can't live in the southern US—they're afraid that if Emmett is within a reasonable run of Alabama or Georgia, he'll just go there and stir shit on behalf of the Vols.

Rosalie: is proudest of her medical training and how she can best Edward at it. But she also enjoys her mechanical engineering studies and is immensely proud of the things she's been able to invent thanks to them. She has been loath to study early childhood education, because she always thought it would make her too depressed, but after helping raise Renesmee, she's thinking that might be the next one she does.

Esme: most loved her M.Eng. in architectural engineering, which she received in the 1980s. While studying architecture felt challenging and transgressive because she was born in an era where advanced schooling at all for women was rare, it still felt enough like "art" to feel like something a woman should do. Architectural engineering, on the other hand, put her toe to toe with mostly men, and with her brains and her experience, she smoked them every single day. She was embarrassed for being so proud of it but Carlisle reveled in her joy and the way her success brought out an uncharacteristic braggadocio. She enjoyed the mathematics of it immensely, and if she did a new degree for fun, it might be in more theoretical mathematics. But the pandemic has opened up a world of opportunity for her for work (by @palmofafreezinghand) and she doesn't foresee that happening again soon.

Edward: would tell you his happiest time has been getting his two medical degrees of course, because he idolizes his sire. But in the 1940s, Carlisle shipped him off to Juilliard to study jazz piano. His mother had always wanted him to go there, and it gave him a great deal of peace to finally do what she wanted. After the pandemic, he's giving some thought to biochemistry, because he's seen the fact that he might actually be able to have an impact on the world like Carlisle does, and he's desperate to feel useful. (And he's suffering with anxiety about becoming an empty nester.)

Carlisle: mostly studies medicine of course and adores it, but his favorite course of study was his Ph.D. in musicology, specializing in the Baroque period. The book he published from his dissertation raised new questions about which compositions should be attributed to Bach and which should not and why won a first book award for its novelty, which was funny since he was mostly relying on his direct knowledge rather than his research.

His most meaningful degree, however, is his doctor of divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary. Like Edward, it was closing a loop of what his parent wanted him to do, but in it he found meaning and peace and closure he didn't realize he was missing.