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 […]
Read More What’s the opposite of conflicting access needs? Tw: suicidal ideationThis will be a short post against what I call “handout based medicine”. What’s that? You say… Let me explain. If you’re a chronic illness patient, you’ve likely had this experience: You get sent to a new medical provider. Say a nutritionist or a sleep therapist. You go to the appointment. Pay the copay. In […]
Read More Handout based medicine needs to changeHot take. Most of the trendy convo about mental health focuses on helping generally healthy folks deal with everyday stressors and sometimes folks with mild illness symptoms. It rarely talks about supporting folks with severe debilitating mental illness in a useful way except to share suicide hotline numbers. The thing is why let it get […]
Read More Mental health as a “trend”, pill shaming and severe mental illness
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