Medical Gaslighting 101
Feb. 13th, 2016 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynling"I think you should consider exercising."
- every doctor, to me, regarding issues ranging from a severe sinus infection to a request for birth control
"Yeah, I, uh, tried that."
- me, sitting there in a muscle shirt and cargo shorts with lumberjack shoulders and runner's calves
"But your records say that you weigh [more than 120 pounds]. I think that might be affecting your health."
- a fellow human being who has apparently gone through medical school
- every doctor, to me, regarding issues ranging from a severe sinus infection to a request for birth control
"Yeah, I, uh, tried that."
- me, sitting there in a muscle shirt and cargo shorts with lumberjack shoulders and runner's calves
"But your records say that you weigh [more than 120 pounds]. I think that might be affecting your health."
- a fellow human being who has apparently gone through medical school
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Date: 2016-02-15 11:13 pm (UTC)I am so fucking grateful that I have arranged medical professionals who don't do this with me. My doctor asked me, in a totally neutral tone: "How do you feel about your degree of fitness and your body shape? I want to be very clear that I don't think there's anything wrong, I want to know how you feel about it." and that was so fucking life changing. Just like, wow, your default assumption is that I know my own status? WHAT?