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Systemic Blindness: The Ignored Story in My Health Chart
My weight data from the past few years is one of the most important indicators of my overall health. When I am in environments that support me, my weight moves toward a healthy range. When my environment is unsafe or … Continue reading
Posted in Well-being
Tagged body mass, data, healthcare, medical, obesity, PTSD, weight
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Beyond Credentials: The Non-Negotiable Key to My Recovery
I had a years-long period when my functionality was so low that it was hard for me to leave the house. I was severely isolated by disability from repeated medical harm. My relationships with practitioners became my default primary social … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Relationships
Tagged connection, doctors, Empathy, healthcare, IPNB, pain, pain medicine, pain specialist, practitioners, Relational Neuroscience, relationships, safety, well-being
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Always in the Direction of Life: Eight Years of Medical Harm and My One Prospect for a Future
I have been fighting for my life daily for 8 years. Before that, there was already a lifetime of abuse from people in positions of power, most often from caregivers. The medical and psychiatric abuse of the last eight years … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare
Tagged Doctor, healthcare, IPNB, medical abuse, psychiatric abuse, Relational Neuroscience, relationships
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Empathy is Crucial in Medicine, But the Healthcare System Undermines It
Prioritizing efficiency and financial goals over empathetic care has detrimental effects on both patients and healthcare practitioners. Empathy Improves Patient Outcomes Enhanced Communication: Empathetic healthcare practitioners build better communication with patients, leading to more accurate diagnoses and more effective treatments. … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare
Tagged burnout, doctors, Empathy, healthcare, medical, Medicine, mindfulness, physician burnout, Psychology, training
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The Cost of Unmet Needs: Trauma Imposed Across a Lifetime
The worst part of my story is not the harm done to me at the hands of caregivers throughout my life, or the institutional betrayal when organizations protect the abuser. It is how many other people have similar experiences. Every … Continue reading
Posted in PTSD
Tagged abuse, harmful treatment, healthcare, Medical PTSD, Medicine, psychiatry, Trauma, unmet needs
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Why Internet Doctors Push Habits Instead of Recognizing Conditions
Doctors on the Internet stay at the level of individual behavior because their authority holds and the solutions stay marketable. Medical social media influencers focus largely on self-management: Scroll less, eat better, try harder, and regulate yourself under conditions that … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare
Tagged doctors, healthcare, Internet doctors, IPNB, pills, procedures, product promotion, protocols, Relational Neuroscience, self-management, selling, showmanship
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Why I Quit Therapy
Over 6.5 years, I was traumatized by 13 therapists. Even the intake, first session, and attempt to explain my history put my nervous system back into the same defensive state. In session, I frequently encountered misattunement that prompted their disbelief, … Continue reading
Cues of Safety: Why Connection is Non-Negotiable in Healthcare
Cues of safety are signals we give each other that tell our nervous systems we are safe with one another. When we feel pro-social and safe enough to be authentic and truly connect, we naturally give off these cues, which … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic disease, chronic illness, connection, Doctor, Empathy, healthcare, Medicine, practitioner, PTSD, safety
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Accumulated Harm: The Hidden Toll of Healthcare Encounters
Every time we turn to a practitioner for help, we engage in a deeply vulnerable act. We reach out not just for solutions, but for connection, support, and some kind of shared human understanding. From a Relational Neuroscience perspective, the … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare
Tagged allostatic load, attunement, betrayal, doctors, harm, health, healthcare, medical stress, Stress
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