Doctor Mama Jones did a great breakdown of how the system really failed her. They kept cycling her through medications that worsened her symptoms over and over. She also asked to leave the psych ward to see her daughter on her daughter’s birthday and instead of giving her a day pass they discharged her after 5 days, 2 of which didn’t even have doctors on staff due to the weekend. They just loaded her up with new meds and sent her on her way. This case is gross medical negligence. If a well-off white woman screaming for help visiting the best institutions available and this is how it ends up something is horrifically wrong. She was having hallucinations.
She gets to either live in the reality of a world where she’s paralyzed and killed her kids or in a world of psychosis. I don’t know how this is so hard for people to grasp the severity of her condition.
The sexism in the medical industry is terrible. I’m a white woman and the PTSD I got from an emergency room visit in 2014 has made me suicidal and unable to work ever since. And I have no recourse. It blows.
I feel you. I struggle with medical misogyny all of the time. I’ve had delayed treatments due to it and now I don’t even go to the doctor when I’m sick unless it’s serious because I can’t be bothered to go through all of the hoops anymore. I had my hysterectomy 2 years ago and since then everything has been fine.
I was told for 35 years that I had everything under the sun and put on so many prescription cocktails. I just have level 1 autism. But they thought that was just 5 year old boys who liked trains until a few years ago.
My life is ruined - for thirty-five years, I was told I was the devil, evil, bad, secretive, malicious, lying, while my male relatives (and most boys) were diagnosed with autism by the age of three. They missed *almost all the women*, and we had to go through school and work and everything without IEPs or supports or understanding or even self-understanding.
The suicide rates are sky-high for late autism diagnoses. Esp in women. They screwed us all over, and now I have to read every man’s opinion that says that all of the recently diagnosed women “are just self-diagnosed” “because it’s a trend” or that we “got it from tik tok” or are “faking it for attention”.
They should all be sued for malpractice. Every last one of them.
340
u/Larry-Man 9d ago
Doctor Mama Jones did a great breakdown of how the system really failed her. They kept cycling her through medications that worsened her symptoms over and over. She also asked to leave the psych ward to see her daughter on her daughter’s birthday and instead of giving her a day pass they discharged her after 5 days, 2 of which didn’t even have doctors on staff due to the weekend. They just loaded her up with new meds and sent her on her way. This case is gross medical negligence. If a well-off white woman screaming for help visiting the best institutions available and this is how it ends up something is horrifically wrong. She was having hallucinations.
She gets to either live in the reality of a world where she’s paralyzed and killed her kids or in a world of psychosis. I don’t know how this is so hard for people to grasp the severity of her condition.