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@skynetbuffering @QueeringPsych How? (Psychiatry IS medicine, btw)

@QueeringPsych Yeh, actual medicine is a little different to chatting with patients dude.

I’m a therapist. Clients come in with self diagnoses all the time. Their self dx is supposed to be an invitation to a discussion. A time to gather info in an unbiased manner from the patient You don’t live in their bodies. You actually need their input for a proper diagnosis

@DexBonkAllstar @QueeringPsych I find this helpful, a pain scale based on how easy it is to ignore, and adjusted for chronic pain.

@QueeringPsych Especially with something that involves pain, which is 100% subjective, so a personal pain scale is used. My 5/10 might not be the same as your 5/10, but it will always be worse than my 2/10 and better than my 9/10. Now you have functional data to guide the diagnosis.

@Euphoric_Levi @QueeringPsych This IS the discussion. ‘You sound frustrsted, but that is a disservice to your patients. Lets get to the root of it.’

@QueeringPsych Well you don't experience what they experience. As a therapist, His statement on it being frustrating should be an invitation for a discussion, not whatever this is... Secondly,Cardiology is different from Obgyn and way different from therapy. Your experience doesn't apply.

Quantitative testing is still inconclusive for a lot of chronci conditions. Mcas, for example, is often not diagnosed due to tryptase not being high enough… but for many, tryptase is only elevated during anaphylactic events. Patients being ignored based on this known issue with quantitative tests started exposing themselves to known triggers (think of a person woth a bee allergy getting stung on purpose) before visits and blood tests, to be sure a doctor could see their hives and other symptoms and to raise their tryptase to diagnosis levels to stop being ignored, and having to use an epi len and go to the ER after to avoid anaphylactic shock. A lot of things still involve, ‘doc, my stomach hjrts every day,’ and the doctor has to try to find it. Even imaging can overlook polps and tumors in some cases without die diligence on the part of all involved.

@QueeringPsych If you had a CT scanner that could diagnose psychological disorders you'd be speaking differently too.

You don’t have time to get frustrated or condescending Regulate out of that, turn your prefrontal cortex back on, & meet the patient where they’re at Assuming someone just wants to feel better is a great place to start. Otherwise you start seeing patients as enemies or burdens

Deadpan is a comedy style, not a facial expression. What you are showing is actually an example of the trope common in the 70s-90s called breaking the fourth wall to share a moment of exasperation or surprise with the audience. This person above has an emotion on their face, and it’s not a normal response to merely being told, ‘hello.’ The Gen Z stare is a blank mannequin looking nobody’s home expression. You can’t tell if they even register you are there, talking to them, or their surroundings.

@joeybtoonz It's called "deadpan." A thing people have done forever. Gen Z has zero originality. Stop labeling things "Gen Z" that are old, it makes them look dumb. 😂

ME: hello CASHIER: ME: thank you CASHIER:

@DiaryofaSickGrl This amuses me no matter how often I see it.

I keep just seeing the same posts over and over even if I try to refresh the feed. Very boring

Watch Interstellar. It’s one of the few movies that tries to address this with the time dialation in the higher gravity well of one of the panets and inside the singularity itself. Or, read A Starman’s Quest, about the twins paradox where one travels at the speed of light and ages less while the other stays on Earth and ages at a normal pace, many decades before his brother returns. Or, a Breof History of Time by Stephen Hawking 😊

@StefanMolyneux I’ve heard Leonard Susskind explain in a video that gravity is time moving slower for the bottom of you than the top of you. I still don’t understand it, is this even correct?

I think we can be pretty sure about gravity though

@Felbloodreaper @LCW_mofu My husband’s dad kept us fed in college with venison. I honestly cannot tell the difference when it’s ground or chicken fried, but my husband who grew up on it can.

@DigitalKitten5 @LCW_mofu I'm not too proud to say we spent a winter eating roadkilled moose. We also volunteered on the meat salvage team to help other families.

「イギリス人だけど労働者は朝から晩まで紅茶飲んでてヌン茶とかしねえ」みたいなコメント読んで笑ってる。そりゃそうだよ日本人だって毎日スシテンプラ食ってねえよ (ﾟωﾟ)えっアメリカ人は毎日ステーキ食ってんの？

You know ‘scientist’ merely means a masters degree or commensurate experience as a professional in a relevant scientific field? Used to manage the compliqnce committees that govern research, including very specific forms of biology. To fill a commttee to meet federal standards, you must have a number lf non-scientist lay-community people on the committee to ask the questions you find irrelevant. In a college town, finding someone without the master’s degree or working experience who was willing to slog theough biohazard safety protoocls was quite hard, seeing as the bar for scientist is actually pretty low. And… OSP, the office for Biosafety Policy woth NIH is who says the lay people kust be included and the science must be written at their level of understanding.

@Hitchslap1 Depends totally on the field. In my field people wouldn’t even know the questions to ask! (I am in a very, very specific specialty form of biology.)

I have developed a one question IQ test. Should all scientific questions be open for research and discussion?

@Hitchslap1 Yes. Reserach is literally searching again. RE-search.

I absolutely hated long division, felt it was guessing and not calculating. Hated most of math from 3rd grade to 5th, and my 6th grse teacher managed to teach ‘proportions’ that finally made fractions and division make sense. Suddenly I liked math and almost minored in it in college.

by the way, "Long Division" is just a leftist memes version for Math. Too drawn out and stupid

I would get in trouble at school for the crime of "doing homework in class" after I would complete my assignments early and get good grades. I got in trouble in Math class for solving problems correctly not using THEIR style of problem solving methods

@pureMetatron Christians want to be everyone’s friend, people trying tokill the, gets in the way.

What do you say to this statement? Yes? No? Maybe? Never?

@yamanakanobody I might be upset, but wouldn’t make a scene. Frankly, I’d be a little nervous I suppose, my conversations with Japanese guests relied a lot on their excellent English. I know very few words and would worry about being rude or offensive.

日本ではたまに外国人お断りの店があるんだけど皆はそれについてどう思う？

@LCW_mofu I cook a lot of soups to be honest, but for nice dinners my husband likes braised ribs.

@Felbloodreaper @LCW_mofu My mom was pretty poor as a child, spoke about hunting squirrels for dinner.

@LCW_mofu No, but there was a time when poor rural folk did have wild deer steak for dinner several times a week, on account of there being no dinner if the hunters didn't keep the meat freezer full.

@LelenaPeacock @RautLeard @VN5809065017027 Come what may, you will persevere. Thx for the hug - the specialist I’ve been waiting on never called me, and I got yelled at the time I called them, so phone tag with the referring office is on my docket - yay.

@DigitalKitten5 @RautLeard @VN5809065017027 Thank you so much. Sending positive vibes for your upcoming appointments, too. I am just scared, I guess. 😭

First, patients are told they are lying about or exaggerating their symptoms for attention or drugs. Then, we try to figure out what's wrong with our bodies on our own. We return asking to be tested for X disease, hoping to find a diagnosis so that maybe we can get treatment & improve. We are scolded harshly for doing research, then labeled as dishonest, neurotic, and a drug seeker. Etc. How much appeal to your expertise & authority is necessary? What are the proper words to use? PLEASE TELL ME, because I have to see a neuro again soon. My goal? Not to end up in a fucking wheelchair. I am not confident I will be taken seriously, & I am paying for my healthcare out of pocket. TELL ME WHAT T0 SAY. I am the hit dog hollering. I am DESPERATE.

@forsh1608 @NoNonsenseND There are sus Tiktokkers who appear able to turn on/off what they think are autism presentations, Tourette’s, and DID, and shoct between them. So a few attention seeking kids have convinced the world the rest of us are frofting for services that don’t exist.

@NoNonsenseND Why would one even suggest one is faking it . 🤷🏽‍♀️ thats rather strange

Most people don't fake being autistic they fake being neurotypical

@gw_safyre @NoNonsenseND It’s all you, unless you faked interests to fit in. You were just an ‘on’ more formal version of you. Life was like a constant job interview that never ended, being ready for questions you can’t understand or feel you answered wrong.

@NoNonsenseND My only problem now is that I've been masking for so long, undiagnosed, I'm not sure what parts are actually me and what parts are pretend-but-now-basically-me?

@LelenaPeacock @RautLeard @VN5809065017027 Best wishes on your upcoming consult.

@DigitalKitten5 @RautLeard @VN5809065017027 Drael is very wise.