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Everyone is all pro ‘mental health’, until you actual live it and discover that a psychiatric diagnosis, however benign, will mean you are stripped of any credibility and will never be treated like a human being again in your healthcare.

@dsowens17 Add to that lifelong discrimination and stigma, and the trauma of institutional betrayal

One tragic pattern I see repeated in prescribed harm cases is this: A child grows up in a neglectful or dysfunctional family. They develop depression or anxiety and are put on medication. The medication causes harm rather than relief. Now more vulnerable than before, the child becomes increasingly dependent. The family responds by doubling down on neglect and invalidation, framing them as the problem. The clinician, rather than questioning this dynamic, often reinforces it. The result is a second abandonment, the child is left harmed by treatment, trapped in the same environment that contributed to their distress, and with even fewer means of escape.

@vi_toka Dodged a bullet

@AetherFox_ Came back to my senses and realised that the fact we’ve never been on the same continent and he died four days before I turned 15 probably made the idea implausible

Thanks to this disease the Google search bar is flooded with questions no man nor beast has asked before

@vi_toka I asked, and you delivered. Was there a definitive answer?

@hell_line0 This is heinous.

A friend of mine who works outside healthcare: The doctor called me “non compliant” in their note! Me: What? Why? Her: I asked how much the cost of the medication was and told them I couldn’t afford it. Me: Let’s call and demand that they change it. Her: Thanks. I literally don’t know what I did wrong. Fellow healthcare professionals, your patients ARE reading your notes on MyChart. Please don’t label anyone as “non compliant” when you really mean barriers to access to care.

@TSBurkhardt Agree.

strongly agree- never give out info that can be used against you. the problem with this frame is that it sets up open hostility that is usually suboptimal in results oriented relationships, as its a de facto attack on their practice. deception & manipulation ftw

@ollied72832385 @SusanMorgan19 Hard agree. It’s psychological abuse.

@AetherFox_ @SusanMorgan19 Gaslighting patients should be a crime

🚨Another tragic quick fix #mesh surgery story …. “I agreed to surgery to support my prolapse, followed by a second operation the following year to support my bladder and stop the incontinence. But the moment I woke up from the first operation in 2015, everything changed. I was in agony. I remember it was the kind of pain that takes your breath away. I was thinking, "something is very wrong". It felt like my body was screaming. I honestly felt like I was dying. But I was reassured it was “normal after surgery” and told things would “settle down” as I recovered from the operation” 👆 the usual repeated gaslighting spiel used on all #mesh injured patients

And when they try to report it they’re not believed. And where they otherwise might have found a way to leave the abusive situation, they’re convinced they’re the problem or drugged into indifference. This is the trend across psychiatry - treating a symptom of social failure, not its cause (the fucking social failure).

I don’t think people are aware of how many women who are sexual trauma victims become diagnosed bipolar disorder and/or borderline personality disorder, then are heavily medicated—trapping them in a cycle of further abuse and invalidation.

#iatrogenicharm #medicalgaslighting

@LouiseWhitemesh @SusanMorgan19 😞

@AetherFox_ @SusanMorgan19 I can't sit down without pain in my left groin crease. The level of pain depends on the type of chair. Chairs that are too high for me to reach the floor, with a small hard seat & an upright back support, are the worst. I get pins & needles & reduced sensation in my left foot too

The pelvic #mesh scandal encapsulates every way in which medicine flagrantly betrays its own central edict: “primum non nocere.” Corrupt device approval pipelines. Corporate indoctrination woven into the fabric of medical training. A culture of reckless overconfidence. Systematic refusal to mitigate harm. Indifferent failure of basic logic and reasoning. And when the whistle is blown, a deliberate, sustained campaign emerges: abusing the patient, exhausting them though forced disability, co-opting regulatory and legal systems in a well-rehearsed dance of power exploitation, and choking the screams of the very people these systems vowed to protect. This goes beyond incompetence. Beyond negligence. It is institutionally-sanctioned denigration of fundamental human rights, with impunity. Medical cover-ups, at the individual and institutional levels, must be criminalised. #pelvicmesh #medicalgaslighting #medicalnegligence #humanrights #womenshealth #medicalmisogyny

@LouiseWhitemesh @SusanMorgan19 What is/was the FBR pain like for you? Mine is pressure and burning, like something is in there and I want to rip it out. Like a rat gnawing at burning rope.

@SusanMorgan19 @AetherFox_ Yes, and mine too showed foreign body reaction. Contrary to the implanting surgeon, the 2nd explanting surgeon said they all show FBR.

@FndNope Classic appeal to authority fallacy. Logical fallacies are typically wheeled out when their proponent has exhausted sound arguments and is grasping for straws. Basically, they lost.

Claiming “you’re not qualified” without engaging the actual points doesn’t strengthen the diagnosis, it weakens the conversation. #OpenDialogue #PatientAdvocacy

@SusanMorgan19 Thank you Susan, that means a lot to me. I will message you.

I’ve been on a very long journey trying to find the truth hidden in paperwork - it takes a lot of Subject Access Requests and then you have to read it all yourself- but even then you are ‘time barred’ - I’m not sure whats caused you FBGC - might be better to dm, if I can help I will x

@LouiseWhitemesh @SusanMorgan19 It’s just not even a logically substantiated claim given FBGCs can grow around even the tiniest of foreign bodies (sutures etc), let alone mesh.

@AetherFox_ @SusanMorgan19 Before I consented to #PelvicMesh my surgeon said there was insufficient evidence to support the claim that mesh can cause a foreign body response. Aside from the pain from my mesh eroding and twisting, since the implant, I have felt as though I have been constantly fighting it.