“Progressive” therapists, ideology & availability of mental health care

Please note this post was Voice type for accessibility and may contain errors Something I’ve started to wonder is how much ideology plays a role in what types of mental illnesses”Progressive” therapists are qualified to treat Specifically, there is significant sections of the left that do things like cast symptoms of mental illness as being […]

Tw: “Self harm”: self harm and “do know harm”

This is a follow onto my previous post about”Self harm” So basically in the previous post I discussed the intent etc. of “self harm” It’s now occurring to me that this discussion meshes with how doctors discuss harm. Dr. oats famously include the phrase “do know harm”. however, as I’ve written on Twitter before, in […]

Sanism in healthcare: silo-ing/hiding away psych patients

Archiving a Twitter thread below: I haven’t had spoons to properly rant abt this yet but one absurd way in which hospitals promote sanism in the guise of protecting mentally ill patients is by hiding us away Mini 🧵 My main hospital hides all my psych appts from other offices causing scheduling conflicts They also […]

Tw: “self-harm”, suicide: self-harm & self-destruction are inaccurate & moralizing terms re mental illness

This is archiving a Twitter thread I wrote [suicide, “self-harm”]Possibly hot take: I really don’t like words like self-harm & self-destruction when talking abt mental illness. Ppl are learning to say dying by suicide instead of committing suicide [as if it was a sin/crime] to highlight it as due to a medical issue. 1/ [“self-harm”]Saying […]

Religious rituals & taking things literally

One thing I’ve noticed as a diff in approach to religion b/w me & my family is while I tend to take lots of everyday things literally & perhaps for that reason & bc of my history of religious rituals being hijacked by my OCD [see my post on Religious OCD & me: https://shesmacksherforehead.com/2019/09/22/religious-ocd-and-me/%5D, I […]

“Biospsychosocial” model & #MedicalGaslighting

This post is to archive a Twitter thread [https://twitter.com/hellozeik/status/1602017019993260032?s=46&t=jIQSmBcZHUcffcA8RmZhxw]: What pisses me off extra abt the “biopsychosocial” stuff is it had potential to actually do so much good…instead it’s just morphed into latest iteration of hysteria worldview in medicine but w a veneer of systems thinking / social justice language. Healthcare providers have convinced themselves […]

Pacing – an ND poem abt chronic illness

I need to pace Instead I pace The pacing destroying the pacing The pacing to recover from the pacing I need to pace – a Neurodivergent poem abt chronic illness

Margining philosophies & human health & safety

Idk if this is a STEM workplace thing but lack of “human performance” margins in everyday work is so pervasive It’s esp silly in space science bc we spend so much attention/effort on project margins – technical/schedule/cost But culturally that doesn’t translate to accessible workplace cultures It’s like humans are expected to not need margins […]

Insight & Control: 2 extremely important mental illness concepts

This post is to describe some concepts I’ll be referencing in other posts & which I think are extremely important for the general public to understand. They’re common knowledge in psychiatry/psychology but rarely show up in mental health discussions among the wider public. This includes many progressive & leftist spaces that promote discussions on mental […]

What’s the opposite of conflicting access needs? Tw: suicidal ideation

You know how there’s the concept of conflicting access needs in the disability community? Including with yourself? Like, for example, I need background music to focus on certain tasks but I can’t put it on because of hyperacusis. I don’t know if there’s a term for the opposite of that? Where symptoms of one illness […]