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@lalehrooh
Postgrad researcher in Child & Adolescent Behavioral Psychiatry. Doctor, teacher, and a lifelong servant to cats 🐈



When people say "everyone is a little ADHD" I always want to be like oh word? you also frequently lose the physical ability to start basic tasks and just sit in a paralyzing cycle of shame while your life falls apart? or did you just forget where you put your keys?



As a psychiatrist I see this regularly - patients with ME/CFS, Long COVID and hEDS who have real trauma from being dismissed and disbelieved by doctors for years. Their pain is genuine. I do have a problem though with the term 'clinician-associated traumatization' (here iatrogenic/Medical PTSD). It feels like it is making clinicians as 'the enemy'. A big part of the problem is the honest uncertainty these conditions create as they often lack clear biomarkers and are difficult to diagnose. We need more empathy and better training on both sides instead of blame.











