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Black women on the nightmare of seeking healthcare in the US: ‘I have to be my own doctor’
Brianna Holt writes: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/27/black-women-healthcare-self-advocate
#healthcare #autonomy #health #publicHealth #medicine #USHealth #selfDefence #selfDefense
"Paternalism occurs when the autonomy of a competent person is overridden on the grounds that an action is intended to improve their well-being. The risk of paternalism in healthcare is significant because of the power dynamic between a person in need of treatment and a person who is able to offer treatment within an establishment that is considered to be authoritative."
"In this paper, I show that the appeal of alternative medicine to women relates to the neglect of women’s health needs within scientific medicine."
Alternative medicine "is valued both for pragmatic medical reasons—because it is believed to be effective, it is assumed to have few or no side effects, it is deemed to be more “natural”—and for ideological reasons—because it is believed to offer control over health, be non-authoritarian, and improve patient autonomy by avoiding paternalism and universalism."
Arianne Shahvisi: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6474852/ via @Sohan
#healthcare #autonomy #AlternativeMedicine #health #publicHealth #medicine
@luked522
Thank you very much for your thoughtful answer.
Since you present yourself as a student, i dare a suggestion: Do you realize that your explanations contains both assessment=analysis and opinion?
On July 14, 1970, a group of activists, many of them in their late teens and early 20s, occupied Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. They barricaded themselves inside the facility, demanding safer and more accessible health care for the community.
The dramatic takeover of Lincoln Hospital led to one of the first Patient’s Bill of Rights, changing patients’ relationship with hospitals and doctors nationwide.
#Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_ALMA1NMk
#YoungLords #selfDefence #publicHealth #health #blackMastodon #healthCare #healthLife #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety #personalSafety #communitySafety #community #history #NYT #LincolnHospital #USHistory #Bronx #SouthBronx #NYC
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This protective mechanism for our mental health disappears when we suffer from depression. Tali Sharot's team, and later Tobias Kube and Winfried Rief's team, showed that depression reduces the ability to refresh these beliefs after positive information. This loss of the positive may even have led some psychiatrists to say that there was a form of depressive realism, in the sense that depression offered an uncompromising view of the world.
It is not known whether this depressive pseudo-realism is related to increased attention to negative stimuli or to greater porosity of beliefs to such unfavourable information.
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#selfDepreciation #wellness #knowledge #science #psychology #neuroscience #brain #suicidal #suicide #depression #rumination #confidence #bias #beliefs #mentalHealth #TaliSharot #positive #phenomenology #SilentSunday
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Studies in non-depressed subjects have shown that we are collectively biased in our #beliefs.
We are much more sensitive to positive than negative information when we adjust our personal beliefs. This bias in updating beliefs tends to favour positive beliefs about our own skills, our own experiences. As a result, we tend to believe that we are better drivers, better lovers, better at sports than the reality of our performance. This bias is present in all civilizations, although it varies according to the groups considered. We know that men tend to have a stronger positive bias than women. The positive bias is also stronger among descendants of settlers compared to Japanese.
It could still be, fundamentally, an effective way to finally protect ourselves from the misfortunes of the world. If we were realistically aware of the dangers of the world around us at all times, then our #mentalHealth would probably be much more fragile. We would be constantly anxious.
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Our nervous system is wired to generate meaning from a stream of discontinuous, uncertain, sometimes ambiguous information. To do this, our brain uses probabilistic #beliefs that allow it to filter out its sensory information, but that are deeply disturbed in depression.
If we suffer from depression, we are constantly plagued by dark thoughts. We may tend to believe that we are worthless, that we have made terrible mistakes, that our loved ones reject us, or that our condition is a burden on their shoulders from which we must release them.
These beliefs are also at the heart of repetitive, circular mental content. These ruminations gradually lock us into a smaller and smaller space. They are self-reinforcing, feeding increasingly negative beliefs, invading the entire spectrum of our minds.
These depressive beliefs are critical because they are often associated with the worsening of the disorder and the risk of suicide
I'm already absent,
From my body, from my head
My eyes are half closed and they don't open anymore.
I cry like a stream that must
necessarily sink
I'm...
A small hard shell
That breaks slowly
What was inside is gone.
"It's like… my head is filled with something black and gooey, it takes up all the space, all the energy.
I try to force myself to do things, to see people.
But it exhausts me so much, it drains me out…
And it's often painful, I can see that people are angry with me."
~ Mirion Malle, in "That's how I disappear"
#depression #quotations #safety #selfCare #self #people #disappointing #relationship #relationships #friendship #mentalHealth #predictions #perceptions #beliefs #representations #probabilities #hallucinations #bias #psychology #SilentSunday #fragility #beliefs #hallucinations #bias #SilentSunday
Depression is when we don’t care for anything. We want to stay under the duvet. The duvet is comfortable. We would like to get out of it but we only have the motivation to stay warm.
Depression can develop into a disinterest for the world. Smiles appear bland, uninteresting. Pleasure and displeasure become indistinguishable, leading to a progressive anaesthesia of emotions.
#EstelleSays #depression #selfCare #self #people #disappointing #relationship #relationships #friendship #mentalHealth #predictions #perceptions #beliefs #representations #probabilities #hallucinations #bias #psychology #SilentSunday #fragility
@black_intellect Michael Jackson wrote about #care and loved ones:
"One of the most difficult aspects of caregiving, often made worse by the economic challenges, is its emotional toll. I remember the often paralyzing sense of powerlessness and frustration, and even anger as my mom’s MS and my late wife’s cancer rendered them increasingly dependent on me. Financial pressures exacerbate stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health effects that are common among family members who care for relatives or friends. Recent estimates are that between 40 to 70% of caregivers have clinically significant symptoms of depression."
https://blackintellect.substack.com/p/taking-care-of-the-caregivers
#mentalHealth #publicHealth #health #blackMastodon #healthCare #healthLife #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety
"Healthy life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita"
Interactive chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/healthy-life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure-per-capita
#health #healthCare #healthEquity #healthExpectancy #healthLife #medicine #physicians #pandemic #epidemics #USA #safety #personalSafety #publicSpending #India #Australia
"Skip the Last Two Paragraphs—and Other Time-Saving Tips for Healthcare News Consumers"
https://fair.org/home/skip-the-last-two-paragraphs-and-other-time-saving-tips-for-healthcare-news-consumers/ @media via @FAIR
#health #healthCare #USPol #medicine #physicians #pandemic #USA #news #safety
How healthcare became official and a luxury – something that the rich elite had recourse to, and which everyone else had to do without: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-medieval-healthcare-and-american-barbarism/
#midwives #monks #medieval #healthcare #Janega @DrEleanorJanega #history #sociology @ethics @sociology @socialpsych #medicine #physicians #pandemic #ModernTimes #modernity #modern #MiddleAges #Europe