Website review: Feministe & Because Being Fat Is Wo...
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wuzgar rated 18 months ago- Seems to me like one of those stories, "mildly" twisted as to blame the male stuff for being sexist and/or morally intolerable. Surly the doctor mentioned the self esteem problem as one among the many but it was the only thing those over zealous feminist bitches heard. It's one of those "hard to resolve problems" and blaming it all on modern superficial cultural phenomena is clearly not the answer here. The article certainly has no other purpose than to root out every thing the doctors said that could be remotely considered sexist and bitch a whole deal about it. Weak.
- blasthornoxx rated 20 months ago
- fat people are disgusting!
- DL rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "Because Being Fat Is Worse Than Being Insane. Apparently. Posted by zuzu @ 3:22 pm Amanda passed this infuriating article on to me. It tells the story of 17-year-old Nia, hospitalized with schizophrenia, and the psychiatrist who treats her %u2014 a psychiatrist who found it so alarming that she was gaining weight from the medication that finally and completely dealt with her symptoms that he took her off the medication. It also tells another story about the authors of the piece, the deputy editor of the magazine and a psychiatrist %u2014 namely, that they don%u2019t seem to find anything wrong with the treating shrink%u2019s decision to compromise his patient%u2019s treatment to save her willowy looks, but they sure can%u2019t understand why she%u2019s not bothered by the weight gain %u2014 unless she%u2019s still mentally i"
- Heggs rated 20 months ago
- What if the rapid weight gain was actually harmful to her physical health? Personally, I think it's great that the doctors tried different medications.
- blondie816 rated 20 months ago
- Have taken Olanzipine(Zyprexa) evil, Evil, EVIL drug, would not wish On my worst enemies, gained over 75 pounds in 3 months. How does it make much sense to give a drug like that to someone who is already depressed, with low self image. I suffered from Bipolar Disorder but can have many of the same symptoms of psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. This drug should be taken off the market all together... There I said it now I feel better.
- civildis rated 20 months ago
- Psychiatry is quackery. From the page: "Because Being Fat Is Worse Than Being Insane. Apparently. Posted by zuzu @ 3:22 pm Amanda passed this infuriating article on to me. It tells the story of 17-year-old Nia, hospitalized with schizophrenia, and the psychiatrist who treats her %u2014 a psychiatrist who found it so alarming that she was gaining weight from the medication that finally and completely dealt with her symptoms that he took her off the medication. It also tells another story about the authors of the piece, the deputy editor of the magazine and a psychiatrist %u2014 namely, that they don%u2019t seem to find anything wrong with the treating shrink%u2019s decision to compromise his patient%u2019s treatment to save her willowy looks, but they sure can%u2019t understand why she%u2019s not bothered by the weight gain %u2014 unless she%u2019s still mentally ill. Here%u2019s what Nia%u2019s psychosis was doing to her: Then, as she turned 17, Nia%u2019s teenage behaviour began to become something else. She started crying out, shouting at invisible persecutors who came into her room. Her parents didn%u2019t know what to do. They were a close family and at first avoided the thought of doctors. They tried to love her more. It wasn%u2019t until Nia stopped going to school altogether that they broached the subject with their GP. He immediately referred her to a psychiatrist. Nia had revealed little to her parents of what was really going on inside her head. But the soft-spoken psychiatrist at the local adolescent mental health centre won her confidence and she began to tell him about the trains. A railway line ran a few hundred yards past the bottom of their garden, far enough away for the family to ignore it. Nevertheless, Nia said she could hear people talking about her inside the painted steel carriages. In the clank of heavy rolling stock she could pick out snatches of conversations about her%u2014derogatory insinuations that crept into her room through the plastic veneer of the double-glazing. She also told him that she had seen things on television. The newsreaders had begun looking at her. In the corners of their eyes she began to read signs. They were sending her messages; messages that linked up with the voices on the trains."
