Tag: Oh

anaparamo:

beautifullybluebrain:

tumored:

you know whats bs? the fact that many disorders are only diagnosed if theyre “a significant hindrance to your functioning” except, neurodivergent people are literally forced to “function” in a world made for neurotypical people, so how can you even tell what impairs our function when we’ve been forced since birth to act as though we’re functioning perfectly fine and to push ourselves to unhealthy limits to do so

I don’t know if anyone else has added this but that concept can be very dangerous not just because it denies people the medical attention they might need or desire but because it can push them to purposely stop coping in order to access it.

For me personally, I was about 12 when a therapist told me “you have eating disorder like thoughts and behaviours but I’m not going to diagnose or treat you for it because you don’t meet the other criteria”. (i.e. being a certain percentile in the underweight class).

So essentially what this woman told me was “I need to see you starve before I will provide the care you need” and my response was to do just that. I needed help and I was desperate for it. I would prove myself and my sickness to her. If it had to “get before it got better” so be it”.

I went from barely fighting to choke down every bite of food and restricting nutrition intake to not eating at all. Long story short, I lost so much weight I nearly died. This fucked up psychology philosophy almost killed me and I can’t be the only one.

#see also: “someone else’s problem are worse so I don’t deserve treatment”
#see also: “it’s not THAT bad”
#for fuck’s sake why does it NEED to get “that bad”?
#when a bone is cracked you don’t wait for it to break
#when blood pressure STARTS edging out of norm it gets treated
(via hagar-972)