July 27, 2010
genderbitch: jessicasideways: genderbitch: jessicasideways: genderbitch: IN OTHER NEWS: I have a date tomorrow! First one after three years of relationship ended! I am so nervous. I have several different species of fluttery insect life in my stomach. And possibly a snake. o_O Just FYI: Calling people ableist when a sentence you don’t like escapes their mouth isn’t good form on dates. Or for any interpersonal communication, really. See? I’m not hostile, I’m trying to help you on something you have serious trouble with! Good thing I don’t do that, eh hun? :D I only call people ableist when they do ableist things, like attempt to slap a mental disorder diagnosis on an entire group of people when they aren’t a psychiatrist, just to excuse using psychosis as an insult. See? I’m not hostile, I’m trying to help you on something you have serious problems with! <3 Actually, yes you do. I may not be a mental health professional (because there is a range of mental health professionals that can make mental health diagnoses - including psychologists and neurologists). They do use the same criterion for diagnosis, though - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Granted, this volume has included/does include things that are not mental health disorders - such as homosexuality and “gender identity disorder”. But heaven forbid pre-med & med school students to discuss mental health diagnoses with a psychiatrist in a differential, in your mind, is ableism. Thank the goddess my concentration is NOT psychiatry, otherwise, I’ll be quite the ableist, doing ableist things like weighing in on a differential. Again, I did not use psychosis as an insult. No matter how much you say that, it does not make it true. I do not believe that psychosis or mental health disorders of any kind should be an insult. It robs patients with these diseases of their dignity… why would you think that I as a future Health Care Professional would make light of psychosis? And yes, you are being hostile. I wasn’t trying to be. If you actually learned anything in medical school (and god I hope you have since you paid all that money, dear) you would’ve learned that you can’t diagnose an entire group of people and that ideological fuckery taught by society and bigotry is not the same as mental illness under any circumstances. Which makes you wrong and ableist. And yes, you did use it as an insult. You used it for a group you did not like, who raises abhorrent viewpoints and you exclaimed it in response to those viewpoints. FFS the comparison alone between bigoted people and psychosis is supremely ableist. Seriously, I would never want you as my doctor. For anything. Just wow. Wow, hun. Again, you’re making assumptions. I never claimed to have been through medical school yet. I’m still in pre-med, I study for the MCAT and GRE (hey, what if one or two of the medical schools I apply to suddenly want GRE scores too?), I work in clinics to gain valuable clinical experience and discuss DSM/ICD with fellow pre-med students. And yes, you can do diagnoses of groups based on common traits and study groups of people as well. Psychiatrists have studied ex-Scientologists to prove that Scientology (I wish I had the exact study to cite but since this is the summer, I don’t have the college database access one would have), in comparison to other cults, has the worst long-term damage. If you wouldn’t want someone willing to ask the hard questions about mental health or any sort of disease without fear of being called ableist as your doctor, then I wouldn’t visit any University Hospital nor any research hospital. In fact, I’d recommend avoiding any hospital that’s affiliated with a medical school at all.

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IN OTHER NEWS: I have a date tomorrow! First one after three years of relationship ended!

I am so nervous. I have several different species of fluttery insect life in my stomach. And possibly a snake. o_O

Just FYI: Calling people ableist when a sentence you don’t like escapes their mouth isn’t good form on dates. Or for any interpersonal communication, really. See? I’m not hostile, I’m trying to help you on something you have serious trouble with!

Good thing I don’t do that, eh hun? :D

I only call people ableist when they do ableist things, like attempt to slap a mental disorder diagnosis on an entire group of people when they aren’t a psychiatrist, just to excuse using psychosis as an insult. See? I’m not hostile, I’m trying to help you on something you have serious problems with! <3

Actually, yes you do. I may not be a mental health professional (because there is a range of mental health professionals that can make mental health diagnoses - including psychologists and neurologists). They do use the same criterion for diagnosis, though - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. Granted, this volume has included/does include things that are not mental health disorders - such as homosexuality and “gender identity disorder”.

But heaven forbid pre-med & med school students to discuss mental health diagnoses with a psychiatrist in a differential, in your mind, is ableism. Thank the goddess my concentration is NOT psychiatry, otherwise, I’ll be quite the ableist, doing ableist things like weighing in on a differential.

Again, I did not use psychosis as an insult. No matter how much you say that, it does not make it true. I do not believe that psychosis or mental health disorders of any kind should be an insult. It robs patients with these diseases of their dignity… why would you think that I as a future Health Care Professional would make light of psychosis?

And yes, you are being hostile. I wasn’t trying to be.

If you actually learned anything in medical school (and god I hope you have since you paid all that money, dear) you would’ve learned that you can’t diagnose an entire group of people and that ideological fuckery taught by society and bigotry is not the same as mental illness under any circumstances.

Which makes you wrong and ableist.

And yes, you did use it as an insult. You used it for a group you did not like, who raises abhorrent viewpoints and you exclaimed it in response to those viewpoints. FFS the comparison alone between bigoted people and psychosis is supremely ableist.

Seriously, I would never want you as my doctor. For anything. Just wow. Wow, hun.

Again, you’re making assumptions. I never claimed to have been through medical school yet. I’m still in pre-med, I study for the MCAT and GRE (hey, what if one or two of the medical schools I apply to suddenly want GRE scores too?), I work in clinics to gain valuable clinical experience and discuss DSM/ICD with fellow pre-med students. And yes, you can do diagnoses of groups based on common traits and study groups of people as well. Psychiatrists have studied ex-Scientologists to prove that Scientology (I wish I had the exact study to cite but since this is the summer, I don’t have the college database access one would have), in comparison to other cults, has the worst long-term damage.

If you wouldn’t want someone willing to ask the hard questions about mental health or any sort of disease without fear of being called ableist as your doctor, then I wouldn’t visit any University Hospital nor any research hospital. In fact, I’d recommend avoiding any hospital that’s affiliated with a medical school at all.

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    Again, you’re making assumptions. I never claimed to have been through medical school yet. I’m still in pre-med, I study...
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