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My first-hand experience of the healthcare system in the USA leads me to conclude we don’t have good data on pathological anxiety levels. Psychiatry is over-inc
by riazrizvi 11mo ago
My first-hand experience of the healthcare system in the USA leads me to conclude we don’t have good data on pathological anxiety levels. Psychiatry is over-incentivized to positively diagnose.
You can get diagnosed with ‘anxiety’ when you’ve been in a hard circumstance for a while, since it’s simply a self-reporting questionnaire on levels of concern. That’s not a way to determine pathology - how do they tell when it’s appropriate behavior, eg when you’re actually in a dangerous situation.
This economy, since the financial crisis, has had weak employment (when you factor in not-in-workforce trends over the last 50 years), being under-employed for a long time is a threat to life. You can be in a location or situation where you’re blind to a loss of economic opportunity because there is so much misinformation. Anxiety is not maladaptive then.
This happened to me, and when my situation finally began to improve after a change in direction, my anxiety went down. Before I made that change, I found anti-anxiety meds put me in a dysfunctional ‘happy’ state, that made it harder to course correct or care about my reality. So I quickly stopped taking them last year, shortly after receiving them. And yet a diagnosis was made then, and looking at my medical report, this so called disease remains on my medical record. Ridiculous. All that self-reporting showed was normal human behavior.
Luckily, at the worst time, I also hedged by seeing separately a psychologist who helped me understand through a series of interviews that all my behavior was appropriate to my situation.
- throw7494949 11mo ago[flagged]
- chucksmash 11mo ago> Got no compensation Did you bring a lawsuit? In such a situation you don't need to rely on the kindness of people's hearts.
- throw7494949 11mo agoYes, I did, no result. First bite is free! If animal has no documented history of attacks, owner has no way to know their aggressive animal could harm people. And they are not responsible!
- pxc 11mo agoIt probably wasn't even the first bite. Most victims of dog bites are friends of a biting dog's owner, with implicit (and sometimes explicit) pressure not to report. I've met people whose dogs have bit as many as seven people without having a formal bite record.
- throw7494949 11mo agoI was mauled by a rabbit, not a dog (I love dogs!!!). But in theory it is impossible to report rabbit attack. Police will refuse to write a protocol, and give you an report! If you insist, they insert weasel words like "non aggressive rabbit was provoked", making any further claims hard to prove. I would recommend anyone whose neighbors have aggressive rabbits, to install cameras, keep all records several years back. And report every incident! And also check your report was actually kept, and put on record a few weeks later! Makes everything much easier in a longer-term, if your family members ends in hospital!!
- skeezyjefferson 11mo agoyou lost your leg to a rabbit?
- pxc 11mo agoThey said "almost". But it seems to me that a rabbit could definitely take a finger or sever an Achilles tendon, maybe badly fuck up a wrist. Plus amputation could be due to an out of control infection or something like that. Wounds are complicated.
- skeezyjefferson 11mo agoI can only understand this if they were incapcitated, unconscious... I mean just kick it off, it weighs a few ounces. How does a rabbit do enough damage to require amputation of the effing leg!?! Think how small a rabbits mouth is, they dont each meat so it would take them a long time to chow down on your leg. Theyre weaker than a cat, unless its one of those massive hares, and have you ever heard a cat mauling someones leg off? I need to see either the size of this rabbit, or the size of this person.
- riazrizvi 11mo agoI was commenting on what I saw to be the diagnostic process. What did you see of the process?
- throw7494949 11mo agoI guess experience depends. If positive diagnosis, is attached to some sort of compensations. If psychiatry can sell you cheep medicine for a huge profit, they will overdisgnose. If employer, institute, state, or university would have to pay compensations, they will under diagnose. About 20% of US population went through horrible sexual abuse (documented fact). I would not discount the amount of people who have anxiety and PTSD from past events.
- khannn 11mo agoDog?
- throw7494949 11mo agoNo, rabbit. Dogs are amazing smart creatures, they would never harm anyone!
- lan321 11mo agoDamn, how did a rabbit fuck you up so bad? Infection? I've always seen them at the level of chickens. We even had some as livestock when I was a kid but they were in a cage all the time.
- Bluescreenbuddy 11mo agoHow big was this rabbit? Holy shit I never thought of a rabbit attacking someone.
- technothrasher 11mo agoNot old enough for Jimmy Carter's swamp rabbit? or Monty Python's Rabbit of Caerbannog?
- __float 11mo agoThis conversation has drifted very far from the original post, and it was only ever tangentially about anxiety anyway. This is also simply not true: we have so many examples of horrific dog bites, with normally-well-behaved animals, well-meaning owners, etc.
- skeezyjefferson 11mo agoeven border collies have attacked babies in carseats for no reason
- khannn 11mo agoEnjoy your rabbit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yAZYDP8Xdw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yAZYDP8Xdw
- kstrauser 11mo agoI went to a psychiatrist to be evaluated for ADHD. He diagnosed me with anxiety, saying that being anxious made it hard for me to focus. Uh. I went to another doc who diagnosed me with and started treating me for ADHD. Boom. Anxiety gone. Turns out I was just super anxious about having a hard time working on the un-shiny things I needed to be working on.
- patates 11mo agoI'd kindly point out that anxiety is usually a side effect of ADHD and usually the link is not as obvious as the one you point out. However, I'm glad things are working out for you :)
- kstrauser 11mo agoIt’s different for everyone, of course. In my case, it was almost entirely about me being stressed out that it was impossible to get starting on big, looming projects before they became emergencies. “If I don’t do this, I’ll probably get fired. I know I have to do this. Why can’t I just do this?” is quite anxiety producing.
- PaulHoule 11mo agoI'd say anxiety is a symptom of mental health problem like having a cough -- the underlying cause can be very different in people. Since I was little I suffered from terrible schizotypal anxiety which somehow cleared up completely in middle age [1] I never got along with a person I knew who had panic disorder despite trying hard: some if it is that my anxiety makes me move towards dangerous things (I've been seen going into a building when the fire alarm was on) and his anxiety makes him want to banish every possible source of anxiety from his life but the more he does that the more fragile it gets. [1] I don't know if it was Gabapentin, or a few years of attempting business developer, or meeting my "evil twin" or discovering my schizotypy or just getting old enough that I don't give a fuck.
- cindyllm 11mo ago[dead]