Almost as if a lot of psychiatry is more about conforming to social norms than it is about health and empirical evidence…
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Eh. Some of the social norms are "doesn't scream at people" and "poops in the public toilet, not all over the walls" and sometimes "dresses oddly" is things like "nothing but a bikini in -20F weather" or "instead of pants, wearing a t shirt with the penis hanging out of the neck hole" but yes many of them are bullshit. For instance I hate it when psychiatrists mark the mannerisms of a man from the lgbt "Queen" subculture as manically elevated or one time I had a patient piling shitty toilet paper next to the toilet who was just used to having a trashcan there in his home country. So if you're good at what you do you're always learning and growing and paying attention to context and thinking critically. Unfortunately the world we live in is full of many incompetent people in many areas and often the best we can do is work around them. If you think you can do better I invite you to come try. That's what I did, and sometimes I do actually do better, and it is pretty fulfilling when you succeed at it. Other times you're just getting screamed at for looking like a demon today, but it's ok because if you offer some Lorna doones to get the haldol to go down you'll be an Angel again in a few hours.
I had it noted that I was “paranoid” after being transported by a guy who blew vape smoke in my face and played the same song on repeat at max volume for thirty minutes.
I have a very low opinion of the whole field, tbh. That’s not even getting into the fucked up shit they did to me when I was a kid (“you don’t want to talk about your parents drinking, because then you might end up in foster care!”)
I once had a physician describe me in his notes as "a pleasant young lady with slightly flattened affect" and I thought, "Yeah. That seems about right."
A shrink put "slightly ungroomed" for me once and my girlfriend got mad.
having your partner get mad for you? goals
Appearance is part of the mental state exam
What does that even mean? Like underpants on your head? A velvet cape?
based on the pride flag i'm guessing it means "dresses like the opposite gender of what i perceive this person should be"
edit: wow okay. wasn't saying its bad. just saying having been queer and dealt with doctors they will absolutely try to use you being queer to justify saying you have a mental health disorder
White after Labor Day
Symptoms: Negative Aura.
Symptoms: Rizzless fit
Why does this feel like an episode of House?
Your shoes... look a little loose. Your hair, is ugly. Chase, check this man's butthole for worms.
House would not make a point like that unless there was some diagnostic significance.
House would do something like notice from the weird colour schemes on their clothing how their colour perception is affected which is an indication towards a rare disease or something.
This doctor is just prejudiced.
House? Is not a psychiatrist. If House had a patient that dipped in and out of psychosis, House would look for tells like odd clothing choices.
House is essentially quite literally a medical Sherlock Holmes, and while he formally specialised in infectious disease, he is clearly shown to be an expert in most medical fields, just like Holmes is an expert in all fields related to anything remotely related to the plot.
https://house.fandom.com/wiki/Gregory_House_and_Sherlock_Holmes_connections
Also, a problem in colour vision would not be psychiatry, it would be ophthalmology first, but likely overall neurology (because if it's just a colour vision issue and not an indication of something larger, it's not a House episode).
Red touch black
Rizz lack
It's a political statement, I'm hunting for woke bitches.
Unrizzonable outfit
Even therapists get jelly of other peoples attire...