Bioplar can cause psychosis (hallucinations/delusions/thought disorder)
Schizoaffective disorder is also a possibility (psychotic episodes with mania and/or depressive episodes)
Schizophrenia can be semi-episodic, some people just have repeated episodes of psychosis and are pretty well in-between instead of constantly being unwell
Both types of bipolar disorder can also present with psychotic features, which can include delusions, paranoia, incoherent thinking, jumbled speech, and hallucinations. It's actually not particularly uncommon, with some evidence suggesting that psychotic features are present in almost half of patients with a bipolar disorder diagnosis.
Usually, the psychotic symptoms are mood-congruent, meaning patients in a manic phase might believe they have secret powers or have been singled out for a special reason, while those who are depressed may think that others are discussing them behind their backs or hear voices telling them to kill themselves. Since the psychotic symptoms of these patients fit the overall "theme" of their other behavior, they may go unnoticed.
Less commonly, the psychotic symptoms do not match the patient's overall mood. This is called "mood incongruence" and it's associated with more severe symptoms and worse patient outcomes. In these patients, the signs of psychosis don't match how they're feeling. They might be manic but also suicidal, for example, or severely depressed but also experience delusions of grandeur. Obviously, mood-incongruent psychotic features are a lot more dangerous.
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She pretended to quit the internet back in may and posted some shit calling out her dad; it sounds like he’s been telling her to cut the wheelchair bullshit because there’s nothing wrong with her. She’s been talking a lot about this “movement disorder” but it’s really just her shaking her legs. I’ll try to find the video again but it’s definitely on her TikTok. Funnily enough, she’s not posted much about her “cancer.” Inch-resting.
Both types of bipolar disorder can also present with psychotic features, which can include delusions, paranoia, incoherent thinking, jumbled speech, and hallucinations. It's actually not particularly uncommon, with some evidence suggesting that psychotic features are present in almost half of patients with a bipolar disorder diagnosis.
Usually, the psychotic symptoms are mood-congruent, meaning patients in a manic phase might believe they have secret powers or have been singled out for a special reason, while those who are depressed may think that others are discussing them behind their backs or hear voices telling them to kill themselves. Since the psychotic symptoms of these patients fit the overall "theme" of their other behavior, they may go unnoticed.
Less commonly, the psychotic symptoms do not match the patient's overall mood. This is called "mood incongruence" and it's associated with more severe symptoms and worse patient outcomes. In these patients, the signs of psychosis don't match how they're feeling. They might be manic but also suicidal, for example, or severely depressed but also experience delusions of grandeur. Obviously, mood-incongruent psychotic features are a lot more dangerous.
Edit to avoid double posting but here’s what she has to say about whether she was a vanishing or conjoined twin (didn’t watch; couldn’t bear to hear whatever bullshit she came up with. Maybe someone can give a tl;dw lmao)
She claims both! Except she also says twins sharing “a sac” are “conjoined” which is just… no
Disclaimer: I’m not even medically adjacent, just autistic special interest.
What sort of identical twin you get depends on when they split, about a quarter are di/di, with almost all the rest being mono/di. Monochorionic twins have a bunch of risk associated with sharing a placenta, most related to sharing a blood supply. Including that if one twin dies the other probably will too. A vanishing twin is, fundamentally, a dead twin. I don’t think it’s possible for vanishing twins to have shared a placenta, at least not without both twins dying, but it’s absolutely not possible for actual conjoined twins to have one twin vanish, due to being attached and all.
Alexandra is a Brave Disabled Person who doesn’t let anything hold her back! It is the ignorance and ableism of our evil society! It’s weird, most disabled people aren’t fans of inspiration porn. Alexandra the contrarian is writing, directing, and producing inspiration porn with herself as the star.
She would be a lot more likable if she discussed the actual challenges someone faces when they’re a disabled student. How do you catch up with class after 17 months in the hospital? How do you find ways around accessibility issues within academia? If Alexandra were interested in positive change, she would discuss issues like that. Instead she’s using "awareness" as an excuse to sing her own praises.
She came back to social media to share her adventures as a deafblind medical student, and people are understandably confused. She is angry that people are being people and asking stupid questions. What’s the better option: explain how your hearing aids help you hear and speak, or write a whiny blog post?
Alexandra chooses to miss the point: it’s irresponsible to entrust the safety of the general public to a person whose disability may lead to a lack of safety. Miles Hilton-Barber flew with another (non-blind) pilot and used speech-output technology. He was not endangering the health of the general public, and he had someone to be his eyes. Alexandra would not have that as a doctor.
Deafblindedness is a spectrum. Alexandra portrays herself as completely deaf and severely vision impaired (<5% total vision). She is a phlebotomist; she shared this in her interview on Steph’s Packed Lunch. And of course, not all doctors are surgeons. She's going to diagnose rashes by... touching them, I guess? Hopefully she never has to diagnose anything infectious, touch-sensitive, or purulent.
She feels the need to be a positive role model for others, and to educate and implement change. She’s been traumatized by the neglect and gaslighting she experienced as a professional patient. This trauma is causing self-doubt (hmm, wonder why?) but she’s determined to achieve her dream.
Well hey, it’s not like she would be performing surgery as a deafblind person, right?
Oh, she’s performed five circumcisions. Right. But that was a while ago, it’s not like this is happening right now while she is part of the NHS.
This video is from yesterday. She’s practicing suturing.
I was curious about how Alexandra appeared in the media after seeing her in Steph's Packed Lunch. Her presentation is very different than the presentation on her blog.
This interview is from November 2019, on an ITV program called Lorraine(?). In the interview (link to when relevant section begins), Alexandra shares that she was diagnosed as deaf at a young age and received her first hearing aids at two years old. Since she was born, her mother spoke to her constantly, got her speech and language therapy, and found a way to speak to her through vibrations. This is why her speech skills are at the level they are.
Her "deaf accent" is more noticeable in this video than in her recent tiktoks. However, a deaf accent can range from very noticeable to pretty subtle, and some of it could be a Welsh accent. She again claimed to have had 20 stomach surgeries as a teen, and 16 ICU admissions before Nov. 2019.
Alexandra appeared on a youtube podcast channel called The Doctor's Kitchen in early March 2020. The host cooked her a chickpea and wilted spinach dish that I would butcher the spelling of (she liked it though). This was surprisingly informative.
Alexandra, who needed multiple surgeries as a teenager for reflux, says she enjoys spicy food (but not Nando's top level of spice). She cooks by just getting everything out of her cupboards and combining them.
Alexandra inherited her love of sports from her parents. She says her dad "was a swimmer at a national level" and her mom was a gymnast, so she grew up around sports. Someone asked her if she considered swimming for the disabled swim team, and she went to the national championships in Sheffield when she was 11, winning five gold and one silver medals. She was spotted and recruited for the GB team and was practicing twice a day. However, her swimming triggered "respiratory episodes" that needed her to be blue-lighted (in an ambulance with sirens/lights) to the emergency room every night after practice.
Alexandra had elective surgery and stomach surgery at age 16 that went wrong - her vagus nerve was damaged, leaving her unable to eat or swallow. This led to 20 more stomach surgeries over a year and a half. She was the only patient in her ward without dementia.
After these surgeries and the resulting 1.5 year hospital stay, Alexandra went to a residential school for blind students (apparently she was in mainstream education before this) with only 60 students. She says that before this, she was very dependent on her parents and others and wouldn't go into a shop alone, but after one year she had changed so much that she was going to Africa alone and was completely independent. She says this school was not academically challenging and they told her she would not be a doctor because she is deafblind. She educated herself in her spare time.
Alexandra shared her Hong Kong cliff adventure story in this video. She also said she was working on a memoir book then, and it talks about her sports background and medical student experiences.
This was part of a longer podcast, which I will listen to later.
Short video from The Times, dated September 2019. Alexandra has only had 15 ICU admissions in this one. Same shit as every other video of hers. Never give up!
Ok that circumcision story must be made up, for several reasons.
I find it very difficult to believe the Surgeon would let you do the procedure without at least assisting on one first (medicine has a teaching method of "see one, do one, teach one"). Also why on earth were there other procedures happening in the same room??
I admit I've only seen a couple of circumcisions, and they were on kids in their early teens, but they were done in theatre.
Also suturing is a tricky skill. In that video she slips the loops off her forceps and doesn't even tie a knot (nylon is a little rigid and very slippery, so it's very easy to do). I wouldn't entrust her with doing neat sutures to give a good cosmetic result on someone's dick.
I would love to know what her fellow students think of her.
Ok that circumcision story must be made up, for several reasons.
I find it very difficult to believe the Surgeon would let you do the procedure without at least assisting on one first (medicine has a teaching method of "see one, do one, teach one"). Also why on earth were there other procedures happening in the same room??
I admit I've only seen a couple of circumcisions, and they were on kids in their early teens, but they were done in theatre.
Also suturing is a tricky skill. In that video she slips the loops off her forceps and doesn't even tie a knot (nylon is a little rigid and very slippery, so it's very easy to do). I wouldn't entrust her with doing neat sutures to give a good cosmetic result on someone's dick.
I would love to know what her fellow students think of her.
The alleged circumcisions happened when she was in Africa. I wonder how she did the sutures for that, since she only sutured for the first time a couple of days ago? Weird.
ETA: Avoiding a double post, someone messaged me a while ago regarding a post about Jaye and HeroicK9s. The message self-deleted after a while and I can't remember the username, so if you see this send me another message please!
Also suturing is a tricky skill. In that video she slips the loops off her forceps and doesn't even tie a knot (nylon is a little rigid and very slippery, so it's very easy to do). I wouldn't entrust her with doing neat sutures to give a good cosmetic result on someone's dick.
Am I the only person who has an involuntary eye twitch every time a media outlet refers to Alexandra as a doctor? She’s not the UK’s first anything yet. They don’t give you the credentials without completing the degree first, and then you gotta pass your regional boards. These people are just feeding her already overinflated ego and insulting everyone who’s worked their asses off to be actual doctors.
As we’ve seen, most of these munchies use the same doctors. Eventually, these quack doctors stop accepting any medical insurance and move to a cash pay system. One of the worst offending munchie concierge doctors only recently stopped accepting all insurance. Their website is a munchies wet dream and Lists every single thing munchies want to how to get what they want and what interventions this quack performs. Rather alarming and disturbing to look thru the website. The physicIan has now listed their cash prices on their website for everything. Prices for appointments, following ups are listed but there is also specific costs for service animal letters, custom wheelchair form/order/evaluation, parking placards, disability letters, school accommodation letters and maintaining central line and eternal tubes. These quack physicians are clearly reaping unimaginable financial growth since so many munchies will pay for what they want.
Paige's (ex) friend Gaby posted a video 21 hours ago saying that she's aware that Paige has lied to her as well as her audience about a lot of stuff, including the things she has said about her mother. We obviously knew this already from the (alleged) comments she made over at r/illnessfakers but unfortunately I didn't archive them and they seem to be deleted already. (Or I'm too stupid to find them.) Either way it's always nice to get the confession on video.
The video is long and all over the place so I didn't bother transcribing anything but the relevant part. (0:30-0:55)
I explained [to her father] how seven years of a friendship went down the drain when I found out that certain someone was lying and manipulating not just me but other people. And how I'm scared to speak out about that because she's told such horrific lies about her mother [I'm missing a word here] what she can say about someone like me.
Haven't watched but looked it up and if it's the right person is indeed EDS. Explored her instagram and there's little mention other than the below explanation of what happened with the ribs and a "What is EDS" link to the EDS society in her bio. In regards to hair seems like bog standard alopecia. Skin isn't great but she is 42, so I wonder if genuine connective tissue issues accelerate that or if she's just spent too many years without sun protection doing outdoors activities.
It does really go to show how normal a life you can have with EDS if you accept the single credible research-proven intervention of keeping active doing more exercise. Even proven EDS patients reject this advice because of the short term effort involved in physical therapy and inadvertently make life a lot worse for themselves. If you don't use it, you lose it.
That's her. She mentioned a long time ago (she's been on several seasons) that the skin and hair were a direct result of her illness but she's always been quiet about what illness it was. It wasn't until her ribs fucked up that she mentioned anything. Cause you know, she's a normal person who just wants to compete and not make it all about her sooper sickness.
Anyway, bit off topic since she's not a munchie. I had just never seen or heard of eds outside of the munchie community so when I was watching the episode, I thought it was interesting.
I also thought about how much we criticize people with EDS for doing risky stuff but I realize that we only judge them for that because they spend so much time complaining about being stuck in wheelchairs or on the couch.
Realizing that Kendall has it bad enough that her body is rotting apart but can still compete in absolutely crazy physical tasks just made me think about how much shit our munchies could and should actually be able to do (hiking, standing in long lineups, etc). None of them are as bad off as her if they even have it, yet every time they walk up a flight of steps they make a big spectacle of it
I guess the criticism shouldn't be "if you have eds, you wouldn't be able to be active you faker" and more along the lines of "99.9% of people with worse eds and are more active than you, you whiny faker"
A deafblind pilot made me LOL. And how many pilots have mistakenly flown into terrain or fallen into a stall when they couldn't see it and the precious technology was working as intended?
Anyway, so is she attending Uni for phlebotomy? I thought stuff like that was for technical schools or whatever, not universities or med school.
A deafblind pilot made me LOL. And how many pilots have mistakenly flown into terrain or fallen into a stall when they couldn't see it and the precious technology was working as intended?
Anyway, so is she attending Uni for phlebotomy? I thought stuff like that was for technical schools or whatever, not universities or med school.
In the usa you can do that shit online. It's fucking weird but you can do like a 4 week course and be certified, and then it's all in person experience.
In most other countries, it's not even called phlebotomy. You get a label such as "medical assistant" or something, because it's an actual college course that needs to be taken through a university or college that has been accredited. The course can be done anywhere from 6 months to 2 years but unlike the usa, they require full on curriculum around biochemistry, anatomy, medical terminology, ethics (lol) and etc.
If someone is going to school for something a bit more advanced, such as lab technologist or nurse, there's a phlebotomy unit. It's typically very short as that's not what those professions specialize in, so they don't get enough training to actually call themselves phlebotomists.
So I'm ignorant to where they're from but if the usa, it's not university. It's a scary program with a scary lack of education.
If they're from anywhere else, it can be a full on diploma or part of a higher degreee
I guess the criticism shouldn't be "if you have eds, you wouldn't be able to be active you faker" and more along the lines of "99.9% of people with worse eds and are more active than you, you whiny faker"
The first I ever heard of EDS was from the drag queen Yvie Oddly, who won season 11 of RuPaul's Drag Race. She was open about her challenges and pain, and when you look at pictures of her it is apparent just how fake the munchies are. I mean, look at the skin on his head!
He also recently competed on the new Drag Race All Stars All Winners season and articulated, in a heartbreaking way, that his body could no longer handle his extremely athletic and acrobatic performances and this show was a chance to say goodbye to those parts of himself. He speaks about disability so differently than the fakers and attention-seekers, and it's obvious in how it resonates with other actually disabled people.
I would think that a doctor would use Dermabond (cyanoacrylate glue) for a circumcision, if anything. It's a fiddly place to suture and nylon is a weird choice of material anyway.
I knew a guy who got circumcised in his 30s and reported it was absolutely as bad as you would expect. This particular patient is obviously a maniac though, considering he let a BLIND PERSON near his penis with a scalpel. Unless...but no, it couldn't be. Could it? Almost like she may not be as "blind" in real life as she is on the Internet, eh?
Edited to say she's so lucky that despite being totally for real BLIND, whenever the camera is on her, she's capable of appearing to look directly at it with both eyes. Other, less inspiring blind people actually look like their eyes aren't seeing anything, which is disturbing to observers and one of the reasons they wear dark glasses. Man, some people have all the luck!
In a non-neonate they def use sutures (it looks horrific afterwards, it's the only surgery I've actually felt unwell watching), but they're just dissolving ones not nylon as you don't need to worry about tension on the wound.
I knew a guy who got circumcised in his 30s and reported it was absolutely as bad as you would expect. This particular patient is obviously a maniac though, considering he let a BLIND PERSON near his penis with a scalpel.
