#neuromedicalism

[aronarchy]

Sysmeds seem to be completely unable to be critical of the DSM or anything else they read if it’s “official,” lol.

The fight to exclude non-distressed impairment from definitions of disorder is a hard-fought ongoing battle by disability activists.

Currently, what is considered “functioning wrong” is determined entirely by (white Western) standards of what is “bad functioning”: when something goes against a set notion of what the body should be like/do. Once again sysmeds (like certain other bigoted/exclusionist/identity-invalidating/-disbelieving groups) essentialize the “default” human body (or what they consider the default) at the expense of individual needs and desires and experiences. If the body/mind is working “wrongly,” but the individual is okay with it and not distressed by it, where’s the issue? Why is it an illness, why does it need to be “fixed”?

Consider that not everyone aligns with the expected default regarding what they want and feel in comparison to what their body/mind is doing. And that is okay.

Major strawman/edge case there: anti-sysmedicalists have never said that the distress we discuss is “distress from knowing you have DID (they’re probably thinking of people feeling despair/internalized stigma).” We acknowledge that you can be in distress from experiencing DID while unaware/in denial of it. Not what this is about. If you “have parts” but are not in distress, it is not DID.

If someone “experiences issues” with relationships/work, that means they are distressed by it. But distress has to be evaluated in isolation: is their distress caused by having alters itself, or the alters fighting/switching a lot but not having alters itself (as in, if the fighting & frequent switching were addressed there would no longer be any distress), or is it because they are forced to do relationships/work because of society/capitalism forcing them into distressing situations they would not experience if they had choice in a liberated world?

Unless they aren’t distressed, but still do relationships/work in a way normative society considers “wrong”/rulebreaking/inefficient/whatever, and go through that totally aware and fine with it, and although they are incapable of forcing themselves to conform they are totally fine with not conforming. In which, once again, the problem would be with external society alone, not the way their brain works itself.

Perhaps think for a damn second before you start saying “disorder is when you can’t be a good little capitalist stooge on the assembly line being as productive as your peers even if you don’t have a problem with that as long as your bosses do.” Perhaps consider where that rhetoric likely came from, and who would benefit from it.

(Note: I’m not saying situations 1 or 2 would not qualify as DID/disordered. But clarifications.)

Seems like sysmeds on average/mostly consider autism inherently a disorder. But why would my autism be a disorder, if in an accommodating and non-stigmatizing world I would not experience any distress from the fact that I have it, and all the distress I experience right now is allowed to be because of/caused by external factors? (Obviously every autistic person has different experiences. But also, obviously, nuance exists.)

I do have actual disorders and the experience is quite different, they’re mostly hell with a few occasional reprieves (though I’m kind of recovering and have been doing better these past few months) but yeah, I’m extremely pissed off at medicalists trying to equate the two experiences. I (personally) would greatly appreciate if I had the option to make them/their symptoms go away entirely, as they’re quite unpleasant. I think it's quite ridiculous that certain people would claim experiencing that is equivalent to merely experiencing abnormality/non-normativity/divergence/difference.

Going to (shamelessly) self-promote my essay here, I scribbled it down at 2am two months ago and have been too low on spoons to edit out any potentially undesirable bits but I’m too tired of explaining the same things over and over and it’s reasonably comprehensive.

This post is not about origins, it is about currently experienced effects. Do not complain about this post being pro-/anti-endo, I’m pro-endo but that’s not really relevant to this.

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[lennysfridge]

idk if you for sure decided what lucies major is but you said she’s really smart what about maybe she’s in pa school

it’s either kinesiology with a minor of neuromedical  

or neuroscience

she is undergraduate and her last year so next year she is taking her masters but doesn’t know where yet

[neuromedical]

Week 39 of 39!!!

It’s over, the end of medical school. I can’t believe I lived to see it.

I don’t want to get sentimental, but it’s been a very long seven years for me and seeing the end of it all is so strange... For the past ten years, there have always been exams to look forward to. Always something to study for, always the pang of guilt for not studying. It took me too long to get to med school and then it took me a year longer to finish it. Good god, somehow, I’m here. No more exams on the horizon (not for five years at least), I don’t know what I’ll do with all the free time.

My last exam was today, and it was probably the hardest one. Internal medicine, the queen of the specialties. The committee was uncompromising and my head was so stressed that it was absolutely empty. At one point, I couldn’t think of the word “biopsy”. I was so ashamed... My stupid head just couldn’t think of things properly. I got no sleep the night before, maybe that was why.

Now I have to care about the job, about the actual medical practice... I’m sure my days of studying are not over, but it won’t be the same anymore - and that’s a good thing. i won’t miss med school. I won’t miss the stress, the endless degradation from doctors, always feeling like an idiot... I won’t miss the bullying. The worst part is, if I had to choose a school again, I’d still go for medicine. What the hell is wrong with me...

Thanks for reading any part of this last year journey :) 39 weeks seemed endless...  I can’t believe I did it. I can’t believe I’m a doctor. Thanks for all the good vibes and energy I got from all of you over the years - I’m not a superstitious person, but dammit I just know it all helped. This tumblr community is great, even for a little blog like mine :)

As I’ve said, the blog is going nowhere, but these 39 weeks are finally done. I would like to change my icon and maybe even the url (?), but I don’t know when I’ll get to it. I used “neuromedical” when I was in year 1 and thought I’d be a neurosurgeon one day. Welp. That’s not happening anymore, but I feel like I’m too attached to the name now :D So anyway!

Thank you for all the sweet replies and messages! I hope you have a lovely rest of the week! ♥

[slaybleist]

Why do we focus solely on erasing Asperger’s name, when his Nazi science still grounds institutional autism treatment today?

https://twitter.com/greensnail_/status/1469097815292923905?s=21

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[ley-med]

Alright so at the prompt of @neuromedical and the tag of @docresa hereby I declare the start of the Tumblr anaesthesia club, proceed.

As the first suggestion I propose we spell it with ae because I'm a dumbass and always forget I could just spell it with an e and now I'm too lazy to fix the tag

[docresa]

End Of Year Positivity

2020 has been tough on everyone. Adapting to a worldwide pandemic surely hasn't been fun, and there have been a ton of other bad news and catastrophies.

So with the holidays ahead, I figured we'd take a step back and try to focus on some positive things that happened to us during the last 12 months.

So I challenge you to name 3 things that happened this year that made you happy, or that went well, or somehow had a positive impact, and tag at least 3 other people to do the same!

So this is what I could think of:

1) I had the most amazing clinical experience. Back in April, during the so called "first wave" I ended up doing a clinical rotation in anesthesiology/intensive care that actually made me want to choose this as a specialty.

2) Being forced to slow down during the first lockdown actually did wonders for my mental health. Even though it was not a choice I made and the circumstances leading there were terrible, it really helped me re-gain some strenghth and motivation. I made good progress on my thesis and I actually got my grades up quite a bit! (Which was probably a result of both 1) and 2) but still...)

3) The community on here. You guys are amazing and I really enjoy interacting with all of you guys from all over the world and learn about med school, science and medicine in all those different places! <3 (Not a new thing in 2020, but always worth a shout-out!)

I'm tagging @loreleys-road-to-md, @medblr-of-a-sleepyhead, @cancerbiophd, @fencingthings, @nerdgirlnarrates, @doktorwhat, @this-is-mdness, @neuromedical, @emgoesmed and everyone else who wants to spread some positivity!

[valstudying-blog]

introduction ♡.

hello everyone! i’m valentina (although you can call me val)

I’ve known about the studyblr community for a long time but i’ve finally decided to create my own blog.

i’m from Colombia, therefore my main language is spanish.

i’m 19.

i’m enfj, virgo, and hufflepuff. If anyone cares about that.

i’m a nursing student

my goal is to become an ER nurse. I know it’s going to take a long time to get there, but i also know it’s going to be worth it.

university works a bit different in my country. For starters, nursing is an undergrad degree and it lasts 4 years (what it’s called “BSN” in other countries) and you don’t need an additional degree or course before starting nursing school but before doing the 4 year professional studies, i’m starting a nurse technician degree. Nurse technicians basically perform the same duties of a LPN (licencesed practical nurse) in other countries.

This degree lasts 1 year and a half so hopefully i’ll be graduating by December 2020!

The classes i’m going to take first semester are: anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, bioethics and basic nursing care. Since this is a technical degree, the classes will lead more towards the practical side of nursing.

why did i make a studyblr?

motivation and productivity! same as everyone else. I need something to keep myself on track and i think this is the perfect way to do it.

i’m used to only stalking the tag but now i want to make my own posts. I want to start the “100 days of productivity challenge” and my very first bullet journal.

since the studyblr community seems so kind and loving, i was hoping to make some new friends as well (:

who are some studyblrs that have inspired me?

@studyblr  @notesworthtea  @ontrackmind @bn-studies  @quilavastudy @neuromedical  @string-theory-of-a-lonely-girl  @skyanne-rn  @thegraymethod @nurseavocado  @emmastudies  @virgo-diaries @tmedic  @academedical  @the-prudent-student   @levitatestudies  @minttea-studies @rylie-studies  @minttea-studies  @loreleys-road-to-md  @anatomyandcappuccini @starduststudies  @studylustre  @way-to-study and @emstudies

[thcscout]

Medical Experts: Medical Marijuana in Louisiana

Medical Experts: Medical Marijuana in Louisiana

The NeuroMedical Center’s Interventional Pain Specialist, Dr. Samir K. Patel, goes over the basics of Louisiana’s Medical Marijuana program.

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Baton Rouge hospital earns 5-star rating for 6th year in a row

The Spine Hospital of Louisiana is a physician-owned hospital located within The NeuroMedical Center Campus specializing in the surgical and non- ... from Google Alert - Spinal https://ift.tt/3iDt7Ws

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Baton Rouge hospital earns 5-star rating for 6th year in a row

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[ley-med]

tagged by: @amongthesebarrencrags Thank you! :) Haven’t done a tag meme in a while, it was nice to get back to it :D

rules: tag 9 people you’d like to know better/catch up with

last song: Babylon Falling by Kabaka Pyramid

last movie: Hmm, not sure? Probably “Love, Guaranteed” the night just before the internal med final exam as a no-brain distraction (and it’s a perfectly fine movie for that). The last memorable movie I watched was The Old Guard. Not watching to many movies anyway, much prefer TV series, and I don’t have time for either at the moment.

currently reading: Pediatric anesthesia articles. Haven’t read a proper not textbook book in months (and I’m in the middle of at least 4 so it’s a pity)

currently watching: The Umbrella Academy, when the fiancé and I both have a free evening here and there

currently craving: The feeling of fulfillment after a productive day? Hah. Mango, I’m craving mangoes. Too bad it’s not a native fruit here, and thus hella expensive...

tagging: i don’t know it’s been a while, tagging some of you from my notes @seeker-of-peace @neuromedical @themedicalstate @nerdgirlnarrates @sry02 No pressure of course, and if anyone feels like babbling about themselves just say I tagged them