I don’t disagree, but these conditions are much less likely to respond to psychiatric treatment than more common conditions like depressIon or schizophrenia are, so that’s not likely to solve the problem in the short run.
Generally, the strategy considered ethical isn’t to pretend to believe the patient’s delusions, but to try to form an alliance based on the common goal of symptom relief. The one time I treated a Morgellon’s patient, I was frank that I didn’t think she really had “skin fibers”, but that I felt medication could help her to be less preoccupied with her symptoms. It worked nicely; she didn’t stop believing in the fibers, but they bothered her a lot less. My impression, though, is that I got lucky and it usually isn’t that easy.
She said the support she has received - including thousands of dollars in donations from well-wishers - has “stabilized” her life. […] She’s now found a temporary home where she isn’t struggling to breathe and her suffering has decreased. […] Her story attracted international attention and a GoFundMe fundraiser set up by supporters has garnered more than $65,000 in donations from almost 1,000 people, with many also sending supportive emails.
Who knew that a simple injection of cash money could be used as a cure for a medical condition?
I wonder where I can get such a prescription. I’m sure that my condition (intense worry and stress while looking at my bank account, and insomnia about future increasing mortgage rates) would be cured by such a simple medical intervention.
The environmental clinic doctor quoted in the article, Riina Bray, has warned that 5G causes headaches, fatigue, irritability, and various other problems including heart and nervous system disorders.
It’s high time that the Canadian health care system budgets for Faraday cages to protect citizens from harmful 5G.
I don’t think the AIDS analogy is on point. Maybe all those poor people in Africa suffer from AIDS, but they are so lucky not to be exposed to all these unnatural toxins and 5G radiation that can also benefit from a cash infusion. The Africans may be financially poor, but they are so lucky to live close to nature, all they have to worry about are clean and natural things like bacterial infection, Giardia and malaria. I mean, they really need to check their privilege - they think lack of cell service is a problem.
Yup. Back in my thirties I’d get regular migraines. The drugs for migraines were crap back then, and I was overweight. The doctor didn’t want to try the regular migraine meds, because they caused weight gain, and started in on some kind of barbiturate. While I was waiting for the prescription to be filled, I read the Physicians Guide that was sitting on the counter.
I read through the possible side effects. Among the usual suspect was, “may provoke a false sense of well-being.” It made me laugh. It was, like - this is supposed to make your headache go away, if you start feeling good, it’s not our fault.
Northern Exposure (set in very remote Alaska) had a story arc involving a character who moved there specifically because of MCS.
There would be numerous downsides to this approach - not least of which, while the land might be cheap, building on it would not, nor would any kind of ongoing expenses (food etc.). And in the case of the woman mentioned upthread, no access to the kind of assistance a wheelchair-bound woman might need on a regular basis.
At work we used to have a collection of volumes of medical illustrations. I forget the name - maybe 6 large light green volumes. I don’t remember much other than a picture for “secondary gain.” There was a guy lying facedown, as on a PT tablee, with a big contented grin on his face as a stack of greenbacks was being applied to his lower back!
I know I’m bumping a dormant topic, but the woman did ultimately go through with the suicide.
I can’t tell exactly when it occurred because the article doesn’t explicitly say so, but I assume it was some time in August, a couple of months after this thread was no longer active. (I base that on the fact that the article was last updated in August.)
ETA: These may not be the same person. They have different names, though in at least one article it’s clear they are using a pseudonym to protect her identity. And there is an age discrepancy; one says she was 31, the other says she was 51. But it seems like a coincidence that there were two women with the same situation in Ontario at the same time for something unprecedented.
I’m not so sure. It seems to me if this gets people with major/persistent depression to avail themselves of the medical system even just to get on the path to assisted suicide, lives might be saved by diverting more than would otherwise be form actually committing suicide if they were left to the usual self-help options that require no interactions with the medical system.
