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- Jun 7, 2020
We know many cows like to claim/self-diagnose illnesses and call themselves "disabled" for the oppression points, like fibromyalgia, complex ptsd, chronic fatigue syndrome, autism, etc. etc.
These illnesses are all diagnosed mainly by patient reporting of symptoms, so many could lie to their doctors to get diagnosed. Others self-diagnose. The main motivation does not seem to be money or drugs, or avoiding the draft, like other malingerers, but seems to be mainly for attention. The "munchausens by internet" thread has many examples.
However, I doubt some of these illnesses exist at all, like fibromyalgia, every obese troon claims muh fibro but the diagnostic criteria for fibro is incredibly vague:
The most widely used criteria for diagnosis are:
a) you either have severe pain in 3 to 6 different areas of your body, or you have milder pain in 7 or more different areas
b) your symptoms have stayed at a similar level for at least 3 months
c) no other reason for your symptoms has been found
It seems like more of a "doctors don't know what's wrong with you" than anything else. There's no way to objectively measure pain so it would be very easy to fake. Fibro is diagnosed in almost exclusively overweight older women, which makes it seem any more suspect. I'm sure not everyone with fibro is faking their pain, but they probably actually have something wrong with them that the doctors don't know about.
Lolcows like Jude claim fibro to have an excuse to be lazy and fat.
Complex PTSD is also claimed by Jude and a couple other cows, and it's not even in the DSM. The difference between "complex PTSD" (which CANNOT be officially diagnosed as of DSM 5) and normal PTSD is that the trauma had to be severe and unavoidable (think women trafficked into prostitution or children growing up in a war torn country). For the cows, the "complex trauma" is probably their parents telling them to not cutting off their dick.
I hate how the word trauma used to mean something terrible, like getting raped, but now it's been hijacked by lefties and your parents telling you to go to bed is extreme trauma.
Now, the real shitshow: Dissociative identity disorder
I am of the opinion that this has never existed and is a totally bullshit diagnosis, much like female hysteria/demonic possession/etc but the people who claim it are obviously severely disturbed in some way, but are not "multiple people in one body".
The most telling is when the movie Sybil came out, about a woman with "DID", diagnoses for DID magically went up. Guess the malingers caught wave of the trendy new mental illness.
I think dissociative disorders may exist, but it's not the way Kevin and other DID claimers put it (oh look at me I switched into a different person). I think the few psychiatrists that even diagnose DID are just doing it for the check, much like GRS surgeons.
What do you think kiwis?
These illnesses are all diagnosed mainly by patient reporting of symptoms, so many could lie to their doctors to get diagnosed. Others self-diagnose. The main motivation does not seem to be money or drugs, or avoiding the draft, like other malingerers, but seems to be mainly for attention. The "munchausens by internet" thread has many examples.
However, I doubt some of these illnesses exist at all, like fibromyalgia, every obese troon claims muh fibro but the diagnostic criteria for fibro is incredibly vague:
The most widely used criteria for diagnosis are:
a) you either have severe pain in 3 to 6 different areas of your body, or you have milder pain in 7 or more different areas
b) your symptoms have stayed at a similar level for at least 3 months
c) no other reason for your symptoms has been found
It seems like more of a "doctors don't know what's wrong with you" than anything else. There's no way to objectively measure pain so it would be very easy to fake. Fibro is diagnosed in almost exclusively overweight older women, which makes it seem any more suspect. I'm sure not everyone with fibro is faking their pain, but they probably actually have something wrong with them that the doctors don't know about.
Lolcows like Jude claim fibro to have an excuse to be lazy and fat.
Complex PTSD is also claimed by Jude and a couple other cows, and it's not even in the DSM. The difference between "complex PTSD" (which CANNOT be officially diagnosed as of DSM 5) and normal PTSD is that the trauma had to be severe and unavoidable (think women trafficked into prostitution or children growing up in a war torn country). For the cows, the "complex trauma" is probably their parents telling them to not cutting off their dick.
I hate how the word trauma used to mean something terrible, like getting raped, but now it's been hijacked by lefties and your parents telling you to go to bed is extreme trauma.
Now, the real shitshow: Dissociative identity disorder
I am of the opinion that this has never existed and is a totally bullshit diagnosis, much like female hysteria/demonic possession/etc but the people who claim it are obviously severely disturbed in some way, but are not "multiple people in one body".
The most telling is when the movie Sybil came out, about a woman with "DID", diagnoses for DID magically went up. Guess the malingers caught wave of the trendy new mental illness.
I think dissociative disorders may exist, but it's not the way Kevin and other DID claimers put it (oh look at me I switched into a different person). I think the few psychiatrists that even diagnose DID are just doing it for the check, much like GRS surgeons.
What do you think kiwis?
