LeopardShepherd [none/use name]

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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • Not a knock on nurse practitioners but I personally wouldn’t be getting a mental health diagnosis from anybody except a clinical psychologist or a psychiatrist. Preferably one that has a special interest in whatever you are seeking help for as well as age group. I know this can be prohibitive but diagnostic criteria for this stuff is so much more subjective than any other field in health I would want somebody at the highest level of expertise.

    I come from a healthcare background and while nurse practitioners are great I honestly feel their role is best suited to maintenence and tweaking of treatment with most of the diagnosis handled by a much more specialised practitioner.

    Also in terms of viewing a diagnosis as having been given “another chronic condition” : just remember that it’s something you have already been living with, it just now has a description and you can recieve targeted help.












  • Well I mean topics like this are fairly low effort and are just meant for a laugh so it’s much easier to get engagement. Serious topics in comparison require effort and knowledge to contribute to meaningfully which less people have time or ability to engage with in the same manner.

    Also sites like this generally cultivate a base which largely have the same general opinions and views on the more serious stuff, so it’s much harder to come up with something that hasn’t already been discussed or studied to death.

    At the end of the day the impact on the real world of anything that gets posted here is close to zero. Most people just want to have some fun with like minded people which can be hard to find in real life. So tell me, do you sit or stand when you piss?