Dr. Rachel McKinnon / Dr. Veronica Ivy / Rhys McKinnon / Rachel Veronica McKinnon / Foxy Moxy / SportIsARight - failed out of a tenured job,man who competes in womens sports, gained like 100 lbs in 2022 (page 813), comically fell off bike before a race (page 830)

[Potatis Salad]

Surely some sort of medical diagnosis is required before you can get even unpaid leave?

Rhys absolutely has a formal PTSD diagnosis. He has referred to his psychiatrist and has said that he takes a multitude of medications. He has said outright that he takes Ambien, and has also alluded to an "anti-anxiety" med, which I am guessing is a benzo.

I suspect this "prescription for paddleboarding" was the psychiatrist's attempt to parry a request for actual prescriptions.


I've said this before, but: in some US jurisdictions before medical and recreational cannabis became more widespread, PTSD was the only non-somatic condition that could legally be treated with prescription cannabis. So, a weed smoker wants to smoke. He can't fake terminal cancer or glaucoma, but he can fake PTSD! A PTSD diagnosis was actually desirable, and people who wanted it figured out how to get it.

Similarly, I think Rhys understood that a PTSD diagnosis could be beneficial. He learned what he needed to say, found a doctor, and said it. He might not have foreseen everything that he would be able to do with the PTSD diagnosis, but I think he sought it deliberately. He has since leveraged his diagnosis for time off of work (a whole semester!), reduced responsibilities when he does work, the shield of "disability" status, and medications. That's a pretty nice bunch of goodies!

 

[Iron Hamster]

That's his proof? It's pretty easy to fake a shaking hand. If he thought he could prove PTSD to a doubter with this, he truly is exceptional. Could just as easily be alkie shakes.

lol. I couldn't even give you that one as a person who has seen that in his friend.

 

[Random_Numbers140097]

I still don't follow how PTSD means he can travel and engage in his sports hobbies but he can't go to department meetings. Those tend to be quite boring.

I would think someone who had PTSD due to internet insults would want to avoid the internet, not department meetings. He can still act like a jackass on the internet but can't do his job? What a farce, not to mention an insult to people who actually have PTSD.

Also, if I drink enough Espresso, I'm sure my hands could do that too.

 

[Positron]

I still don't follow how PTSD means he can travel and engage in his sports hobbies but he can't go to department meetings. Those tend to be quite boring.

I would think someone who had PTSD due to internet insults would want to avoid the internet, not department meetings. He can still act like a jackass on the internet but can't do his job? What a farce, not to mention an insult to people who actually have PTSD.

CofC should just install NetNanny on his computers.

 

[AnOminous]

The claimed disability is PTSD, and the proof of disability given to CofC is a video of a tattooed hand shaking uncontrollably.

He's obviously just deliberately shaking it.

Rhys absolutely has a formal PTSD diagnosis. He has referred to his psychiatrist and has said that he takes a multitude of medications. He has said outright that he takes Ambien, and has also alluded to an "anti-anxiety" med, which I am guessing is a benzo.

That doesn't sound like PTSD to me. That sounds like being a drug addict engaging in drug seeking behavior. Any real diagnostician wouldn't diagnose PTSD when his drug abuse might be the cause of all his problems.

 

[JY's Tampon]

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Hahahahahah I’m going to deliberately film my hand!

 

[Kosher Dill]

Any real diagnostician wouldn't diagnose PTSD

I would be entirely unsurprised to learn he doctor-shopped till he found someone with convenient standards of care.

 

[AnOminous]

I would be entirely unsurprised to learn he doctor-shopped till he found someone with convenient standards of care.

Or had his shyster lawyer recommend a quack he uses as an expert witness in his shakedown suits. Assuming he's had the sense to find some bottom feeder already, which he really should have done if he's planning a frivolous lawsuit.

 

[Kosher Dill]

his shyster lawyer

Why does he need a lawyer? He'd make a scary good lawyer all on his own!

 

[artilleryfroth]

I read his article about gaslighting and it was just as stupid as I suspected it would be. Most of it was him whining about the totally unfair treatment women had dished out to “Victoria”, a talented transwoman cyclist. He even claimed TERFS got him disqualified from a race by lying about him. Then allegedly he was proven right, and apologised to by officials, but not given back his medal or prize money. I would bet anything that never happened.
So he’s using his article about gaslighting to gaslight people.

 

[mister butafuco]

That's his proof? It's pretty easy to fake a shaking hand. If he thought he could prove PTSD to a doubter with this, he truly is exceptional. Could just as easily be alkie shakes.

I've had shakes like that from overdoing the caffeine.

 

[Troon Anthropologist]

It pains me to think about how many people have caved to his LARP, despite the obvious truths.

Real PTSD ruins your life, it’s a living hell. I can’t stop laughing at the shaky hand video provided as “proof”. Someone really needs to add the “you say you’re fine, but you’re not fine” audio meme to it. May the karma from this fuckery cause his neovag to prolapse. Again.

So, he’s been diagnosed, he’s on meds, what’s he doing to improve his situation?
Rhys should be required to attend group therapy to learn some coping skills, get some perspective, and if we’re lucky, also receive several swift kicks from those in need of some cathartic relief.

The rampant idiocy of this man...

 

[Old Fart]

Surely some sort of medical diagnosis is required before you can get even unpaid leave?

As others pointed out, PTSD diagnoses are handed out like candy, you just have to shop a few shrinks until you catch one who will. All cows on the Farms claim PTSD and I'm sure many of them actually got it confirmed from their therapist.

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You get those shakes if you do some workout with weights, nudge nudge.

Why does he need a lawyer? He'd make a scary good lawyer all on his own!

Oh lord, please let him take the stand in his own defence rather than hiring a lawyer when it comes to court, please

 

[code over theory]

Ex-philosopher here, catching up on this thread, which is getting linked to by a lot academic philosophers. It is cathartic to see that the entire world is not taken in by the malarkey.

I met Rachel once, a half decade ago at a miserable philosophy "party" in a hotel room, which is as bad as it sounds. She was a real number. Constantly interrupted the few women there and physically dominated their space. She honestly didn't seem to take an interest in any thing except herself. You know the thing I remember, though? It's the caked makeup and her eyes, cold and dead.

 

[Kosher Dill]

It pains me to think about how many people have caved to his LARP, despite the obvious truths.

The entire secret to Rhys' success is that truth is outsourced. Everyone is relying on someone else to be the gatekeeper of truth - and he can forum-shop as much as he pleases to find that special someone to sign off on his version of the truth.

Ex-philosopher here, catching up on this thread, which is getting linked to by a lot academic philosophers

Well, here's a question for any philosophers reading: if you've read much of this thread you know we've got no use for the good doctor or any of his works. But is there anything we're missing? Does the academic world consider him or his work to have any redeeming qualities?

 

[Otterly]

CPTSD exists, but it’s caused by really horrific stuff. A child who has had a violent and abusive upbringing, living in a war zone, tour of duty where bad shit happens, first responders who see awful stuff day in day out, or a woman who has lived for years in an abusive/violent relationship.
cPTSD as practised by Internet munchies and Rhys is a LARP. It’s a get out of jail free card. I think what they may not realise is that it’s shorthand for a whole slew of personality disorders. If you’ve got a patient who isn’t compliant, you slap a BPD diagnosis on them and they walk. If you can pander a bit with cPTSD maybe you can get them into therapy.
Anyway, that label doesn’t mean what Rhys thinks it does. It’s the doctor equivalent of those vet file notes that say ‘fluffy is an absolute bastard, bites, wear gloves’

 

[MysteriousStranger]

Please! His right hand is shaking while his left hand, holding the camera, is not or the image would be shaking.

I think I can do that.

Yes, I can do that. In fact, I'm a much better one handed shakey faker than Rhys. Take that, Chubs!

 

[Mr Snoid]

CPTSD exists, but it’s caused by really horrific stuff. A child who has had a violent and abusive upbringing, living in a war zone, tour of duty where bad shit happens, first responders who see awful stuff day in day out, or a woman who has lived for years in an abusive/violent relationship.

Rhys knows that. In his paper, he cites a WHO definition that says CPTSD results from repeated exposure to the likes of torture, child soldiering, slavery. But, then he follows it with this:

"One of the primary features of CPTSD is the experience of repeated betrayals of trust by someone in authority over the victim. This can be a parent or caregiver, and chronic emotional abuse, or it can be workplace harassment, bullying, and mobbing. Thus, while CPTSD is typically associated with the forms of repeated traumatic exposures quoted above, it can include more 'mundane' experiences like workplace and recreational sources of trauma or micro-trauma."

Thus, it is established that even pedestrian experiences can cause CPTSD. Of course, there are no cites to back up his assertions.

Reminds me of Zack Antolak's oft-cited "discovery" that depersonalization/derealization is a manifestation of gender dysphoria. If you already "identify as" a woman, why should anyone so much as blink when you also "identify as" a medical researcher?

 

[Treasure Champs]

Rhys knows that. In his paper, he cites a WHO definition that says CPTSD results from repeated exposure to the likes of torture, child soldiering, slavery. But, then he follows it with this:

"One of the primary features of CPTSD is the experience of repeated betrayals of trust by someone in authority over the victim. This can be a parent or caregiver, and chronic emotional abuse, or it can be workplace harassment, bullying, and mobbing. Thus, while CPTSD is typically associated with the forms of repeated traumatic exposures quoted above, it can include more 'mundane' experiences like workplace and recreational sources of trauma or micro-trauma."

Thus, it is established that even pedestrian experiences can cause CPTSD. Of course, there are no cites to back up his assertions.

Reminds me of Zack Antolak's oft-cited "discovery" that depersonalization/derealization is a manifestation of gender dysphoria. If you already "identify as" a woman, why should anyone so much as blink when you also "identify as" a medical researcher?

Ooooh please let this be his complaint. I would love to see how far the SJW-rhetoric can be leveraged into a winning hand in real life. I bet that while a paper arguing "Pee-Oh-Sees suffer terribly from the awful epistemic violence of microaggressions in daily life and deserve reparations" is the sort of thing that might be lauded by his colleagues, a complaint that those same colleagues have driven Rhys to severe mental disorder with anti-tranny micro-traumas stemming from their evil cis-privileged biases might not fly as well when it actually meets the skin-in-the-game test of landing on desks at HR.

 

[Patricia Highsmith]

Ooooh please let this be his complaint. I would love to see how far the SJW-rhetoric can be leveraged into a winning hand in real life. I bet that while a paper arguing "Pee-Oh-Sees suffer terribly from the awful epistemic violence of microaggressions in daily life and deserve reparations" is the sort of thing that might be lauded by his colleagues, a complaint that those same colleagues have driven Rhys to severe mental disorder with anti-tranny micro-traumas stemming from their evil cis-privileged biases might not fly as well when it actually meets the skin-in-the-game test of landing on desks at HR.

The thing that PTSD and claims associated hinge on is the event or events that caused it. Without a well documented sufficiently traumatic event the “symptoms“ just look like you’re a bit fucked in the EQ department, or you’re a fugazi.