Kit

and not be met with "well doesn't everyone have a little bit of ADHD nowadays"

At my most recent intake appointment, the ND therapist offered me a box of stim toys and told me it was ok if I didn't make eye contact. So I did it, and I couldn't believe how much more comfortable I was. Just that ALONE made me open up more. I feel like I can now discuss my ADHD-related issues

I loved my previous therapist but I now realize that there was an entire part of me that I was unable to talk about in therapy because I guess I didn't feel comfortable. I immediately started masking without even realizing it.

I really didn't realize how life changing it was as a neurodivergent person to have a therapist who is also neurodivergent until I found my most recent one. It's a game changer.

wtf how did I not know this!!!!!!!

I find it difficult to root for the NMHL in its current state. So I have 0 interest in the canes.

Although I will say that I'm selfish and I'm hoping for a Carolina team first LOL

good news for you, there is some speculation on a future Dallas team seeing that it was on their "takeover" tour list

So I guess the only team on my shitlist right now is Frost and that's exclusively because of Britta Curl (sorry y'all)

Like, even though the Victoire are like the "rivals" of my team, the sirens, I still love them because of Poulin/Stacey 🙂‍↕️

the only downside of the PWHL that I've run into is that I love all of the players and teams so much that I find it really hard to fervently root against almost anyone (except curl lol)

Here's hoping!! 😭

I GOT AN INTERVIEW FOR THE RADIOLOGY PROGRAM I APPLIED TO !!!!!!!

Just got done meeting with her and I wasn't sure if she would appreciate this but she has the OCD/ADHD/PTSD trifecta and now I know that she got a little laugh out of it

filling out the intake form for a new therapist

This is really nice to hear because I always see my OCD as being a hindrance. It's always nice to see it from the other side. She sounds like a delight ♥️

the pitt fan community is so fucking funny because basically every single ship possible in that show is deeply unethical for one reason or another, but that's basically exactly how it works in a hospital so it's just accurate and hilarious

because of course the answer is no

the answer is no, btw

having OCD is so humiliating. I just had to ask my pharmacist if me getting my immunosuppressant shot this week would raise my chances of getting aspiration pneumonia from a piece of chicken I inhaled yesterday. humiliating.

literally like they'd probably show up bedside to giggle 😐

honestly if this happens I'm just really hoping my husband takes the risk and takes me elsewhere even if the care is worse 😭 like the thought of my coworkers packaging up my medication AND SEEING MY CHART is legit terrifying

benefits of living next to the hospital you work at:

✅ easy commute

cons of living next to the hospital you work at:

❌ If I have an emergency I have to get treated at my JOB....... by my COWORKERS.................

And, again, this is with a well-staffed network chock-full of specialists. Imagine what it's like for patients who live in rural areas? It's easy for them to get a 15 minute ride to the ED, maybe not easy to get a ride in the *middle of the week* on a workday for a specialist over an hour away.

Healthcare network (world-renown) told me that it was going to be SIX MONTHS before I could see a GI.

One of the pharmacists I work with had to wait a YEAR for an ophthalmologist for a degenerative eye disease. He lost 25% of his vision in that time.

I just think it's so bizarre to constantly see workers from the ED make videos online saying "we are not your specialist" like patients don't know that.

Like... yes, but also, do you understand how difficult it is to get a specialist? When I swapped insurance networks, an extremely well-staffed—

Generally, when patients end up in the ED for "non-emergent" and chronic purposes, it's because they have a chronic condition that has finally hit a boiling point that scares them or they're just sick of dealing with it. Yes, the ED is not equipped to handle this. Two things can be true at once.

A lot of people (a) do not have access to primary care in the way that they have to an emergency room, (b) genuinely think whatever is causing them to be at the ED is an emergency

Who the hell wants to wait 8 hours if they didn't think something was wrong with them?

I keep seeing video after video of nurses and doctors making these videos like "The emergency room is for EMERGENCIES, not for figuring out what is wrong with your stomach" and it's so unbelievably frustrating. Patients KNOW that and they think that what is happening to them IS an emergency!!!!

Something that I wish ED workers online understood every time that they make videos being high key condescending to patients who use the ED as primary care is that a lot of patients literally do not have another option.