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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.

Comments

[aubrem.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting here thinking and thinking about that article but really, there is no generous way to look at it.

She gained three stone which is, what, 42 pounds? If she was "willowy" before, that makes her no more than 160 pounds now. No way her health is affected, not at that age. Just ... a softened jawline and a need for better-fitting jeans. I mean, who hasn't seen a pretty girl who weighs 160 pounds? Even with society's non-fat-accepting standards?

I'm still trying to understand the point of the article - complaining about the fact that there are no good schizophrenia drugs? That's part of it, but really, it seems to be about the fact that she's no longer willowy and doesn't care and that bothers the authors. That blows me away. Talk about a messed up perspective.

And then the way they write off the mentally ill population as being unattractive and how tragic it is that such a pretty girl was there at all; how unusual that is. grrrr.

I'm just amazed. Thanks for linking.

[florahart]

Heh. I was working under the assumption 3 stone in three weeks was a start and not where it stopped, in my comment below.

[pauraque]

complaining about the fact that there are no good schizophrenia drugs?

Now, that is a complaint I can get behind. We do need more effective anti-psychotic drugs with fewer side effects. But if that was supposed to be their point, they sure did hide it well!

[shinywhimsy.livejournal.com]

i'm way late into this discussion heh stupid rl stuff keeping me away from flist *shakes fist*

but i'm replying to your comment because it really brought things into perspective for me (it took me a while to work out how much the weight gain actually was, what with the different units). dude, if she weighs 160 pounds by the end? that's, what, 72kg? she still weighs less than me and i'm not considered fat (by medical standards anyway), merely a bit over what my weight should be. not anywhere near the weight that would cause her physical and dangerous health problems. of course, we're not told by the moronic author if her weight gain stopped there; if it didn't, then that's concerning, for her health, definitely not for her physical appearance. but as far as side effects of anti-psychotic (among other psychiatric drugs) go, weight gain is so very at the bottom of the scale. it's really despairing when you see a psychiatrist, if not writing this at least endorsing it by putting his name there.

this article is such a perfect example of why people suck. *shakes head sadly* as a health professional, i'm hoping it's actually fiction like some people seem to think it is. it'd be bad bad fiction and made worse by being passed on as a true story but at least i'd be consoled by the fact that it didn't happen.