Eh. Some of the social norms are “doesn’t scream at people” and “poops in the public toilet, not all over the walls” and sometimes “dresses oddly” is things like “nothing but a bikini in -20F weather” or “instead of pants, wearing a t shirt with the penis hanging out of the neck hole” but yes many of them are bullshit. For instance I hate it when psychiatrists mark the mannerisms of a man from the lgbt “Queen” subculture as manically elevated or one time I had a patient piling shitty toilet paper next to the toilet who was just used to having a trashcan there in his home country. So if you’re good at what you do you’re always learning and growing and paying attention to context and thinking critically. Unfortunately the world we live in is full of many incompetent people in many areas and often the best we can do is work around them. If you think you can do better I invite you to come try. That’s what I did, and sometimes I do actually do better, and it is pretty fulfilling when you succeed at it. Other times you’re just getting screamed at for looking like a demon today, but it’s ok because if you offer some Lorna doones to get the haldol to go down you’ll be an Angel again in a few hours.
I had it noted that I was “paranoid” after being transported by a guy who blew vape smoke in my face and played the same song on repeat at max volume for thirty minutes.
I have a very low opinion of the whole field, tbh. That’s not even getting into the fucked up shit they did to me when I was a kid (“you don’t want to talk about your parents drinking, because then you might end up in foster care!”)
Eh. Some of the social norms are “doesn’t scream at people” and “poops in the public toilet, not all over the walls” and sometimes “dresses oddly” is things like “nothing but a bikini in -20F weather” or “instead of pants, wearing a t shirt with the penis hanging out of the neck hole” but yes many of them are bullshit. For instance I hate it when psychiatrists mark the mannerisms of a man from the lgbt “Queen” subculture as manically elevated or one time I had a patient piling shitty toilet paper next to the toilet who was just used to having a trashcan there in his home country. So if you’re good at what you do you’re always learning and growing and paying attention to context and thinking critically. Unfortunately the world we live in is full of many incompetent people in many areas and often the best we can do is work around them. If you think you can do better I invite you to come try. That’s what I did, and sometimes I do actually do better, and it is pretty fulfilling when you succeed at it. Other times you’re just getting screamed at for looking like a demon today, but it’s ok because if you offer some Lorna doones to get the haldol to go down you’ll be an Angel again in a few hours.
I had it noted that I was “paranoid” after being transported by a guy who blew vape smoke in my face and played the same song on repeat at max volume for thirty minutes.
I have a very low opinion of the whole field, tbh. That’s not even getting into the fucked up shit they did to me when I was a kid (“you don’t want to talk about your parents drinking, because then you might end up in foster care!”)