This is a slide from Jim Shames, creator of the Oregon Pain Guidance. Want to know why women are treated as though pain is all in our heads? This is why. It’s not just the ORT, but people like Shames and Dr Ling (psychiatrist) who push this idea.
2) More from Shames. You take women who have been violated and traumatized and also have kidney stones, MS, FMS, RA, cancer, EDS, and you gaslight them. You tell them even though they have a dx condition, their pain must be psychological bc they were abused or raped.
3). Then you use that as an excuse to deny pain relief. You violate and traumatize them all over again. And you count this as success? So now if you’re a victim of sexual abuse or assault your pain, regardless of what it is (cancer, broken bones, mastectomy, kidney stones,)
4) you will likely never have your pain treated. So you’re punishing women who have been raped or abused. Women who already have a life sentence of emotional pain, and now you’re giving them a life sentence of physical pain. Excellent job.
5) this is why we tell women to never tell their doctors of their history of abuse or rape. Why would they? It’s used against them as a weapon. These doctors (Kolodny, Lembke, Ballantyne, Chou) have taken women’s rights and pushed them back 100 years.
6) We are back to the 1800’s when women who were sick were called hysterical.
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