Hummingbird Recovery

07/21/2022

This is exciting news and will help those in need of mental health service more options and more flexibility of keeping their provider should they move or if they are a digital nomad.

Over the next few months, the member states will nominate their commission delegates and the commission will officially convene its first meeting in October to draft the rules and bylaws of compact.

North Carolina Joins Counseling Compact On July 7, 2022, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed into law HB 791, enacting the Counseling Compact there. This brings compact membership to 16 states. Over the next few months, the member states will nominate their commission delegates and the commiss...

07/02/2022

There is a high comorbidity rate between neurodivergent folxs and biomedical health conditions. It wasn't until I figured out I was Autistic that I was able to understand and connect the dots on my health issues that left doctors stumped for 8 years.

My POTs, hEDS, dystonia, MCAS are all connected to my neurodivergence. So please don't give up, do your research, and advocate for yourself.

The medical model wasn't built for us. So if you want testing done or to be referred to a specialist and your provider refuses remember to tell them "I would like you to document your refusal to treat in my chart and I would like a copy for my records"

This can make them legally liable down the road if you have a condition and damage could have been prevented with proper treatment.

You can also file a complaint with your insurance provider and with your local ethics board if you feel you have been harmed by a provider.

Just know you are not alone!!!

Neurodivergent people are more than twice as likely to have hypermobile joints and are far more likely to experience pain, new research finds.

06/30/2022

Not surprised and have been complaining about this for a while. But women aren't the only ones not represented correctly... BIPOC are vastly under represented as well.

So how valid can diagnostic criteria and medication recommendations be if there is bias in the research?

"The starkest lack of portrayal was in the psychiatric studies. While 60% of psychiatric patients are women, only 42% of psychiatric clinical trial participants are women.

An article published in the American Family Physician Journal found significant differences in how women absorb, distribute, metabolize, and excrete drugs. Additional studies have also found that women have differing adverse side effects to medications and experience these side effects at higher rates.

The WHO highlights and plans to address the focus on men while developing drugs, treatment plans, and vaccinations in a 2021 press release."

A recent study published in Contemporary Clinical Trials found that women were underrepresented in clinical trials, which may be contributing to health inequity.

06/16/2022