As I read this, I can't help but think that if she has the capacity to pick and choose like that, the hospital should be able to make the choice to stop the flow of narcotics to her, send her home, and refuse her future readmission. If she wants "nature to take its course," let her experience just that, in all of its agony, rather than forcing the hospital to supply her opioids and wait on her hand and foot.
She has no active infection right now,so I think she's most likely to have been bumped down to 4 hourly Paracetamol and Ibuprofen.
Okay, that makes sense. Perhaps I was jumping the gun a bit. The whole court order read like they were basically allowing Paige to munch away, but forcing the hospital to go along with the whole thing. "She can hurt herself as much as she wants, and you'd better damn well pretend she's a sick little princess and keep her gorked out, or else!"
Nah, I think it's just giving her something we take for granted in the states, the right to make absolutely terrible decisions about her medical care. Much as I love the no-no casts, they'd never fly here, and apparently not in Canada either since Vampire Kelly has no legs.
In the US, hospitals can refuse admission for problematic patients, but it involves a lot of legal intervention before getting to that stage. The munchies I knew of personally would get a basic once-over in the ER if they showed up, and were quickly turfed back out the door to follow up with whichever primary care physician hasn’t ‘fired’ them from their practice.
I think I posted about this before, but I learned this lesson when I said a girl I was archiving "VSED" to a British person. They thought it meant there was proof of a real disease because no doctor would sign off on that if she wasn't really very ill. Sign off on what? This is the United States. We do not need to be sick. We do not need to fake sick well enough to trick doctors. We do not need to ask permission. We can just stop and there's nothing anyone can do. To me this truth is so self-evident that I thought the other person was being sarcastic at first.
This is often the case for BPD/Cluster B nightmares, they will have a plan in place in the ED to say things like "must be seen by a senior clinician, not for opioids, not for admission unless medically necessary". I have even seen plans for BPD patients who keep self harming that they won't even patch them up because they will just unpick the stitches and come back.
I got you.
Probably, if it's their first language. Seems like there's something up with how auditory hallucinations work if you want a rabbit hole: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2007/jul/exploring-how-deaf-people-hear-voice-hallucinations
Thank you for your service, you are absolutely amazing!
"Individuals with severe language deprivation and incomplete acquisition of either speech or sign, were remarkable in that they did not experience either auditory characteristics or perception of subvisual imagery of voice articulation, suggesting that language acquisition within a critical period may be necessary for voice-hallucinations".
This seems logically, that if you’ve never heard voices or language they would not be a part of you delusions/hallucinations.
But the interesting part is that even people born profoundly deaf, but who have learned some form of language, still get "auditory" hallucinations in the form of "voices" signing or mouthing words. They're not seeing a person signing, but it's like a person is signing in their brain? So bizarre and interesting.
What is shows is that the sound component of words is not actually necessary for the understanding of syntax and language. Most of us who are not deaf have "spoken" words as our internal monologue, and we hear the "spoken" version of a word when we read it, but that's only because that is the way we picked up language as children. Those who learn it in other ways (such as those who have been deaf from birth) still have that internal monologue, but it presumably consists of a succession of mental word-concepts that are just as coherent. That does make sense, the internal monologue is not a 24/7 thing and it is possible to perform complex thought processes without having a narration, such as when performing complex non-linguistic tasks. Think about drawing or painting, chances are you aren't always thinking "I'll draw this line here then this line here", but the series of tasks you must perform in the right order to create visual art do work similarly to language but can function perfectly well without it.
Yes, but unlike the fakers we’ve seen, it’s still ASL. The signs are understandable even if the sentences/general message doesn’t make sense.
They say that nobody born blind has even been diagnosed with schizophrenia
That’s fascinating. I think I remember reading about this somewhere - Anthony burgess maybe? I can’t remember.
