What Really Gets Me Is That They Won't Call Her A Mother, But Then They Go And Refer To Her Female Child

What really gets me is that they won't call her a mother, but then they go and refer to her female child as "daughter". Damn hypocrites.

I have not read the whole article yet, and I'm not defending the hospital in any way, shape, or form, but I do wonder if the whole "specimen" comment had to do with age of viability. The age of viability is generally considered to be around 22 weeks and has stayed right around there for the past two decades. My sister was born in 2003 at 22 weeks 4 days gestation. Today, an Alabama boy holds the record for the most premature baby to survive. Curtis Means was born 132 days premature on July 5, 2020 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham when the mother was 21 weeks and one day pregnant. There are plenty of other stories out there about women who had a stillborn child or a child who died soon after delivery at 18 to 19 weeks gestation, and the hospital refused to give them a birth or death certificate because, according to the CDC, they had only suffered a miscarriage, or their baby was of "previable age".

I don't think this is an ethical or healthy practice, because it dehumanizes infants and mothers alike, but it should be known that it is not a one-off situation.

Babe wake up new word for women just dropped: ✨lifegiver✨

People on twitter are saying glasses aren’t a disability aid, and like… I get glasses have been pretty normalized, but I’m poor and need my glasses to drive/see in general/stop myself from getting migraines so… if my glasses break, I’m pretty fucked. Not being able to see is a disability for many, actually.

Happy Birthday JK Rowling 💚🤍💜

I work in a adolescent locked mental health unit. Guess how many kids on average there identify as trans or non-binary? I would say it's around 30 to 40% of them. During orientation, my co-worker said to me, "rule #1: we just use they/them pronouns for everyone so they can't get offended at us for using the wrong one".

it's always "trans youth are at a higher risk for suicidal thoughts" and never "suicidal youth are more prone to deciding they're trans"

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

Okay, I 100% hear you on overdiagnosis, the lack of primary prevention/environmental changes as a first line, and the overall lack of care related to psychiatrists prescribing medications without a lot of follow-up conversation to really discuss treatment. But please understand that a lot of these problems are just effects of the way medical practice in America was developed and the shitty American Healthcare System we have today, rather than the personal choices of psychiatrists. For example, most doctors (not just psychiatrists) work for a Healthcare system that tells them they need to meet a certain quota of patients every day. This is how we get the 30 to 60 minutes per patient model. I thoroughly believe that a whole lot of mental health issues would be much better treated if the doctors truly were able to stay with their patients as long as they needed to, but corporate Healthcare had other problems. And the extreme shortage of psychiatrists is not helping that problem. Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners are among some of the highest paid Nurse Practitioners simply because the demand is high and the supply is low.

If you want there to be more community resources, less overdiagnosing, more continuity of care and so on and so forth, tell the corporate Healthcare companies.

And to the person who wants to hear just one nice thing about psychiatry: the child psychiatrist on my unit spends about 10 hours a day, at least 5 days a week, working with his patients. Every single nurse on my unit fights to uphold the human dignity of the patients on our unit, and to teach these kids and teenagers how to identify cognitive distortions, advocate for themselves, and in a lot of cases, find reasons to go on living. Good psychiatry involves indivual therapy, family therapy, good coping skills, learning effective communication, and understanding how your own thoughts can work for or against you. Good psychiatry is the kind that refuses to label a kid as having a Personality Disorder because kids are resilient af and who knows what kind of mind they might have in ten years. Good psychiatry is the kind that identifies serious cognitive or developmental delays but then uses that information to provide resources and protection for a kid who is bound to be more vulnerable than their peers. Good psychiatry is about helping a person understand themselves so that they can take better care of themselves, rather than providing nothing more than a label and bottle of pills.

The American Healthcare System that thrives on profits cannot support good psychiatry.

Listen. I don't want to be anti-psychiatry. I would love to believe that psychiatry is helping people and that psychiatry is a good thing. I would even love to be "psych-critical" and believe that psychiatry is a fundamentally good thing that has serious flaws, but it can be helpful if it is practiced in an ethical way. But the more I learn about psychiatry the more I think all psychiatrists should be loaded onto a Tesla rocket and shot directly into the sun.