No, your patient does not have an anxiety disorder because they are wearing a N95 to avoid being reinfected with #COVID after it completely altered their life and killed loved ones. Charting records in this way is punitive, abusive, and stigmatizing; and THAT is pathological.
@catladyactivist Anxiety is relative, standardization is almost impossible. When it gets so extreme that it inhibits the person then we have different names for the outcomes. So, this is just lazy from bad doctors who are afraid of getting caught faking expertise.
@catladyactivist @victoriacoble15 This seems accurate to me: psychologytoday.com/us/blog/what-t…
@catladyactivist I hate the people that rush to stigmatize like this. It’s like gleeful for them. Best part of her day, getting to project all her judgment on society’s favorite scapegoats, and fuck with our lives. Medicine is so abusive and carceral.
@catladyactivist Next time, wear a niqab - any comment related to anxiety then becomes religious discriminatory.
@catladyactivist @pot8um They put it in my immunocompromised KID's medical file that *I* "have a complex" because I asked them to mask during her hospital stay (they refused; it "might cause anxiety in the other patients") and did myself mask any time anyone was anywhere near us. Not MY file, HERS. 🤷🙄
@catladyactivist Or even bc their life HASN’T yet been altered but they know it can be and have the sense to want avoid that!
@catladyactivist It also isn’t an anxiety disorder if they never have had Covid, but are aware of the harm it can do.
@catladyactivist It’s so pathological doctors are twisting being informed & smart about Covid into anxiety…I’m gonna start saying I like masks because I think I look exotic in them…it highlights my eyes…but seriously gonna bring studies & ask if it’s anxiety or that I’m more informed/smarter
@catladyactivist As someone who has experienced this first-hand, I couldn't agree more.