A Note for the Wise

[mllelaurel]

Thou shalt not do medical research for your fics at one-o'clock in the morning. Doing so shall result in you self-diagnosing yourself with everything under the sun.

Repeat after me: You do not have Guillaine Barre Syndrome. What you have is shitty circulation, with no other symptoms.

*sigh* Maybe I just have recessive hypochondriacal (is that even a word?) tendencies.

Ah, well. Off to watch the Rikkai episodes. That type of fic research sounds like more fun right now, anyway.

Comments

[branchandroot]

It actually happens no matter what hour you do the research at. ^_^; It's a documented phenomenon among professors of any kind of medicine that every time they introduce the symptom set of another disease, a hefty chunk of the class will have to be convinced they don't have it.

This both demonstrates the difficulty of diagnosing any illness with any kind of surety, which gives me sympathy for doctors, and demonstrates the fuzziness of diagnosing any illness, which pisses me off at doctors for ever making like they're sure of their wild-assed-informed-guess.

[amet.livejournal.com]

I think you can just say 'Hypochondriac tendencies'. But don't worry, I do that in all my abnormal psych classes, too. There was a point this summer where suddenly everyone I ever knew who was too clingy looked like they had Borderline Personality Disorder. XD;;;;;;

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

That... makes me very glad I'm not going into any sort of medical field. And it explains why, half the time, doctors have trouble diagnosing whatever it is that I have.

[mllelaurel.livejournal.com]

XD Oh, Abnormal Psych class should be fun this year! Let's see how many people in it have Antisocial Personality Disorder...

And thanks for the correct spelling!