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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what was up with Dr. Al-Hashimi’s private phone call? Was she doing that on behalf of the possibly schizophrenic patient to see if he had a brain tumor?[/quote]

No. She said she was a patient of the neurologist and was making an appointment for herself. It's very clear in the conversation.

We've seen have Dr. Al-Hashimi have two, what appear to be dissociative episodes. One in that cliffhanger early in the season when she's looking down at Baby Jane Doe and Samira keeps saying her name and she can't hear it, and then another in this episode right before she makes the call to the neurologist.

We also learned in this episode that she has worked overseas with Doctors Without Borders (she uses the French name of the org), including at the hospital Dasht-E-Barchi hospital in Kabul. If you are unfamiliar with it, Dasht-E-Barchi was the site of a massacre by a military insurgency in 2020, where a maternity ward was targeted and many mothers and hospital workers were murdered.

[b]It is likely that Dr. Al-Hashimi has PTSD from that experience, that was triggered by Baby Jane Doe's cries. She probably sees a neurologist to deal with neurological effects of her PTSD, including flashbacks and dissociative episodes. She is recognizing the signs of a triggering episode in herself and she's reaching out to her doctor in order to address them as quickly as possible. [/b]

This will be interesting to watch unfold because almost everyone in that ED is dealing with some level of PTSD, due to the mass shooting event and/or Covid, as well as other more discrete incidents (Dana's assault, Santos' childhood abuse, Langdon's addiction). We are also seeing the trauma experienced by both patients and their families this season. Ilana, the rape survivor, in the immediate aftermath of SA by a friend. We also see Jackson's (the law student patient who has been hearing voices) family discussing another family member who committed suicide, and also the choice to conceal that from Jackson's sister. And then there is Roxy, the cancer patient, whose entire family is experiencing the trauma of her physical decline and likely imminent death.

I think this season is about trauma, both in the acute sense of someone with a critical injury being rolled into a trauma room at the ER, and also in the broader sense of the events that mark us and follow us throughout our lives. How it manifests, how people deal. Everything from thrill seeking as a way to quiet traumatic episodes (Abbott, also Langdon), self-medicating (Langdon), seeking treatment (Al-Hashimi), denial and escapism (Rabi), humor and putting up defenses (Santos), self-harm (also Santos, also Langdon, also maybe Rabi), digging into your work (ALL OF THEM), and so on. What is healthy, what is not, what works anyway. [/quote]

So I’m not sure this is correct now based on the info we have now about her epilepsy.[/quote]

So now we know it was both -- she was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child but had been mostly seizure free as an adult, but she notes she had not worked on pediatric cases "since Afghanistan" and Baby Jane Doe was her first seizure of the day, perhaps brought on by the child crying and a stress response due to her experience in the maternity hospital in Afghanistan during the terror attack.[/quote]

PTSD and epilepsy are 2 very different things. Someone (I assume you) stated that she has PTSD and that’s what caused her seizures and she likely sees a neurologist for PTSD. That’s not true. She sees a neurologist for seizures caused by epilepsy, not PTSD. Moreover, we don’t even know if she has PTSD.

She’d need a therapist for PTSD.[/quote]
Sepideh Moafi (the actress who plays her) has something to say about herself, PTSD, and Robby
https://www.today.com/popculture/tv/sepideh-moafi-dr-al-hashimi-robby-the-pitt-finale-interview-rcna332172[/quote]

She says her character has PTSD. Ok. But that’s not what causes her absence seizures. That’s a brain condition and requires meds to control it. She’s had that since the age of 5. Absence seizures are not flashbacks like in PTSD. Her PTSD was not causing her seizures.

Just admit you had no idea about her epilepsy and were wrong to say her “episodes” were caused by PTSD.

She called her neurologist because of her seizures, not her PTSD.[/quote]
I'm not the one who asserted that PTSD caused her absence seizures. People have wondered whether she has PTSD so I thought it was interesting.

I don't think she's overreacting at all. If the seizures can't be controlled, her life and career are going to be drastically impacted. She thought this was behind her and now she's facing an uncertain future. And her PTSD is definitely relevant here, this is a traumatic event happening to a woman who has developed a life while managing both conditions. I'd be in pieces on the floor.[/quote]

Fair point.[/quote]

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