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[pauraque_bk]

Stayed up waaaaay too late last night chatting with sioniann, xylodemon, shaychana, bloodybrilliant, and fivil. Hoped they wouldn't think I was kind of butting in since sioniann was the only one I actually knew. Can we have regular fandom chats? I love them so.

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Stuck it to the man by joining a GLBT-friendly guild. Take that! (Also somehow went up a rank this week, which surprised me, since I did like a third of the honor I gained last week. Too bad the necklace I've got is better than the Senior Sergeant reward.)

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Must go to library. Argh, natural light!

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ETA: Oh, oh, I wanted to link this article: Beautiful Madness. Nonsensical tripe about a woman who was cured of her schizophrenia, but -- GASP -- gained weight as a side-effect! OH NOES! "The treatment had reversed a Faustian pact in which Nia had been beautiful and mad, and replaced it with another - in which she was fat and sane. But was it really a blessing that Nia seemed to have no conception of what she had lost?"

This would be funny if it weren't sickening. bigfatblog did a post about it; the comments from 'joey' are me.


ETA2: Argh, the CD player I've had since the Precambrian Era just died. If fandom was planning to buy me an iPod, now would be a good time.

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[aubrem.livejournal.com]

See, that's the thing. We don't know any of that - if she kept gaining weight, at what rate, what the weight gain prognosis for the drug is - does the gain slow down, does it stop, what the impact on health is, what exactly the doctors thought was going on metabolically. We don't know because the authors were completely uninterested in that - all they cared about was the idea that she was trading beauty for sanity and how tragic that was - particularly that she didn't care (which they almost seem to think is an insanity of its own). They mention the word diabetes once but beyond that, *nothing* about her health. That is what is so shocking. If the article had been about physical health versus mental health, that would be interesting and legit but it was about beauty versus sanity! I'd better stop before I start ranting. : )

You're right that the doctors probably were concerned about her health, but the writer of the article wasn't and am I misremembering that one of the authors was a doctor?

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am I misremembering that one of the authors was a doctor?

You're not misremembering. He's a psychiatrist, of all things!