Broadwaybabyto

Stop placing complex chronic illness patients on psych holds.

If you don’t know how to treat someone, say so. Don’t tell them it’s all in their head.

Placing patients in the psych ward breaks their trust, sets back their baseline and sends a clear message that they’re not safe in your care.

Medical trauma is real. It maims and kills. Respect our expertise in our bodies. Listen to us and let us be partners in our care.

https://time.com/7206080/long-covid-psychiatric-wards/

#chronicillness #longcovid #mecfs #spoonie #gaslighting #medicalptsd #trauma #disability #ableism

Dismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long COVID Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric Wards

The chronic illnesses that make doctors doubt their patients often start after what “should” be a short-lived sickness—like COVID-19.

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Jan 15, 2025 at 5:04amWeb
Show threadTransitBikerJan 15, 2025
@broadwaybabyto oh, that’s the plan for LGBTQ+ folks. They’ll be labeled as mentally ill.
Show threadBroadwaybabytoJan 15, 2025
@TransitBiker it’s so distressing and wrong … I don’t know what to do except keep calling it out.
Show threadMudlark Jan 15, 2025
@broadwaybabyto that’s horrible, and sadly not surprising - so many doctors just refuse to listen to their patients, I’ve had it happen a couple of times, but my friend has some real nightmare stories about doctors not accepting her EDS diagnosis, up to the point of ignoring her and calling her specialist to check (just in case she’d misremembered her lifelong chronic illness)
Show threadBroadwaybabytoJan 15, 2025
@Mudlark ugh that’s so frustrating. I’ve had doctors suggest I’m misremembering my hysterectomy. No sir … that’s really not something you ever forget.
Show threadTilde LowengrimmJan 15, 2025
@broadwaybabyto @dymaxion What — and I say this with as much equanimity as I can manage — the fuck!
Show threadDarwin WoodkaJan 16, 2025

@broadwaybabyto

Psychosis is often a symptom of physical issues, brought on by hormonal changes or other body chemistry fuckups. It's time to treat mental illness as what it is -- a SYMPTOM, not a disease.