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September 2016 – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. An Open Letter to Special Needs Parents. You with the blog that walks through the everyday challenges you face with your child. You who writes passionate pieces that call for an understanding of your child’s unique needs. I need to talk to you. Or auditory processing disorder. For your child with ADD. For your child with anxiety or panic. For your child with any of a litany of experiences that place him or her outside of the neurological mainstream.
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Tips for Patients – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. Category: Tips for Patients. What your records say can hurt you. Do you have inaccurate information in your medical records? Errors and misdiagnoses in your records can have far reaching consequences on your health and well being. Https:/ www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/hie-interoperability/nationwide-interoperability-roadmap-final-version-1.0.pdf. Isn’t that a good thing? Yes…well, ideally it is. If all of your records are accurate, this sharing he...
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Why I’m Not Celebrating 2 Years as PMDD-Free – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. Why I’m Not Celebrating 2 Years as PMDD-Free. So why aren’t I celebrating my freedom from PMDD? My peace and equanimity have been restored. I no longer take any psych drugs. My only prescription is estradiol as a hormone replacement. I love my husband again. The crying fits are over. My motivation is restored. Suicidal thoughts are nothing more than a dark memory that lives in an ever more distant past. Why are we still suffering when there is a cure?
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May 2016 – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. If Somatization Disorders Existed Outside of Medicine. Like many couples, my husband and I have different ideas about optimal household temperatures. I have gotten through entire summers without using the air conditioner more than a handful of times. Alec, on the other hand, becomes very uncomfortable at any temperature above arctic blast. This damned air isn’t even blowing cold! I thought. Usually when he turned the air on my skin turned blue and my...
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About – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. Twilah Hiari is a recovering patient. She has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Kansas. Her study of philosophy was inspired by a lifelong love of logic and ethical theory. Through writing, meditation, relationship building, quilt creation, and a medication free life, she has found peace, healing, and contentment. She lives in Kansas with her husband and three rescue dogs. Are My Experiences Beyond the Breadth of Buddhism? Liana's PMDD Blog.
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November 2016 – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. On Privilege or (Oh Damn, She Said the P Word Again). Recently I was in an online disability discussion forum for disability X. One forum member, who I’ll call Jane, chided the other forum members for not contributing more money to a fundraiser that was underway to fund efforts to find a cure for disability X. Jane went on to say that finding a cure for disability X should be the biggest priority of everyone in the forum. I was somewhat unprepared for th...
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So I’m Autistic. Now what? – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. So I’m Autistic. Now what? I don’t trust people who simply abide by rules without questioning them or reflecting on their origins. I’ve been on the wrong end of diagnostic labels for most of my life due the refusal of clinicians to do a thorough investigation. Major depressive disorder, nope. Generalized anxiety disorder, nope. Borderline personality disorder, nope try again. Autism, yep, that’s it. Moment. For me it was more of a ha ha. Autism and audit...
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October 2016 – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. So I’m Autistic. Now what? I don’t trust people who simply abide by rules without questioning them or reflecting on their origins. I’ve been on the wrong end of diagnostic labels for most of my life due the refusal of clinicians to do a thorough investigation. Major depressive disorder, nope. Generalized anxiety disorder, nope. Borderline personality disorder, nope try again. Autism, yep, that’s it. Moment. For me it was more of a ha ha. Autism and audit...
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April 2016 – A Thinking Patient
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Reflections on Diagnosis, Disability, and Culture. These physicians are wrong and right in their presumptions about my abilities. In certain ways I am very high functioning and capable of completing tasks found in some workplaces. In other ways APD and hyperacusis make it impossible for me to function in the professional capacity I used to. I can think and problem solve very wellif the environment is completely. Conversations must be one on one and of short duration. I would have to miss work 1-2 day...
