I'm a huge furry. |he/him/they/them/she/her| Call me Artemis/Artie/Adriann. I am ok with any gendered language. just don't assume I an strictly a man or strictly a woman and we good ✌
a girl i know told me how a guy she knows once moved out from his parents, ate nothing but fries and meatballs for HALF A YEAR, and got scurvy. imagine the doctor’s face when this guy shows up with like his gums bleeding and the doc has to fucking say DUDE…. THATS SCURVY…. in this day and age
this is turning into a “how a person i know got scurvy” thread and im so here for this, please share your scurvy stories if you have any
the other day someone posted pics from the reddit page r/zerocarbs where these fools only ate meat and 0 vegetables or fruits and all the posts were about various symptoms of scurvy. i died when one literally read ‘i don’t want to start the vitamin C debate again but’
THE VITAMIN C DEBATE
My mother told me all about scurvy when I was five and trying to resist eating pumpkin and let me tell you it’s been 35 years and I still get nervous if I go for two days without eating a green vegetable.
I told my own little picky eater about scurvy, rickets etc and now one of her most frequently requested lunch items is baby spinach, closely followed by carrots.
I’m not saying everyone should mildly traumatize their children to make them understand that vegetables are vital to ongoing possession of your teeth and organs, but.. no, that’s exactly what I’m saying. Go for it.
some guys i used to know went on a boys only road trip. they decided they were only going to eat things they could cook on the engine block of the car.
two of them got scurvy. one of them drank so much jagermeister + red bull that he temporarily lost the ability to see in colour.
if your eating disorder treatment center is in some private equity/investment firm’s portfolio (and it probably is) then the center’s bottom line, their top priority, is not going to be your recovery
we may get lucky and have good clinicians, and they may try to advocate for us, but the corporation that employs them cares little for their advocacy or whatever expertise they might have bc they’re inherently in conflict w the interests of investors
Anyone have thoughts on this? I feel conflicted as a patient who has experienced good clinicians…I get that money may be the bottom line here for the company. And I hate to be played as a pawn. But when is treatment necessary/what ultimately ends up being helpful? I feel so reliant on this model of treatment (and maybe that’s what they want…ugh)
Yea, I’m going to go out on a limb and say MOST ALL treatment centers run based on a business model, which is one of supply and demand. The demand for treatment is there, so they supply the treatment. Some centers do better and providing empirically proven effective treatment, staffing clinicians with expertise in treating eating disorders, etc, but they largely all operate off a need for funding to stay in business.
I think that regardless of how invested the actual clinicians are in our treatment, in order for the center to remain in business they have to turn over a certain number of patients/bring in a set amount of money or they would “charity themselves out of business.”
In my experience, even with good insurance, I’ve had decent treatment centers cut my time short or push me through faster just to fill that bed with a more acute case because they could bill more for more acute services.
Treatment is often necessary for people, and o get that it can be life saving. I just think it runs like any other business half the time and patients end up suffering because of that.
