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[transparent_85]

Mitral valve prolapse.

Hella stupid. My doctor looked at the results and said "It's just mitral valve prolapse and med student hypochondria." I replied "If I die anytime soon I'm gonna haunt your vacation home." Cardiologists are the worst. Doctors are basically just people who get 12 other people to do their jobs for them, I should know. But on

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[zombienought]

So...you'll live for a while, then? Can
it be corrected?

I love how our evaluations of the body's
functions prime us for what emotions we
think we're experiencing.

[transparent_85]

yeah, i'm going to live for a while and it's gonna suck.

agreed about the emotional thing. back when i was a neuroscience major i was allll up in the antonio damisio-esque "neurobiologize everything" mode but now i'm like... eh.

[unlockunlock]

agreed about cardiologists. augh. also: research the shit out of this. I been on beta blockers since i was like 13 and my bp is 90/60 normally and it's still supposed to be related to anxiety dis. what

[transparent_85]

wtf

[burnlikepetals]

don't forget the magical powers of the spleeeeen

wow, your doctor's an asshole.

[transparent_85]

?

[burnlikepetals]

The connection between spleen (the organ) and melancholy (the temperament) comes from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks. One of the humours (body fluid) was the black bile, secreted by the spleen organ and associated with melancholy. In contrast, the Talmud (tractate Berachoth 61b) refers to the spleen as the organ of laughter while possibly suggesting a link with the humoral view of the organ. In the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England, women in bad humour were said to be afflicted by the spleen, or the vapours of the spleen. In modern English, "to vent one's spleen" means to vent one's anger, e.g. by shouting, and can be applied to both males and females. Similarly, the English term "splenetic" is used to describe a person in a foul mood

[transparent_85]

ohhh okay. that's all very interesting. when considering the contrast between the humoral / talmudic views i can't help but think of nietzsche's "man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter."