I was able to get copies of the majority of my medical records, which arrived in the post today. All that is missing is one six-month period from Canada and the month I was in the US. I cannot believe the ******** that is in this stack of papers. It did my brain in and I had a horrible day from reading it. I have to rant about how utterly ridiculous this **** is, plus I highlighted all the idiotic things.

Amongst others:
-"Her affect is slightly giggly"
-"She attended today wearing rather uncharacteristically revealing clothing which [sic] also seemed seasonally inappropriate." (It was July, so I assume tank top and shorts. I always wear the same garments. Also pdoc needs to learn about restrictive and non-restrictive clauses.)
-"She presented as casually dressed and wearing a t-shirt with the slogan 'Save a horse, ride a cowboy'." (Are crimes against fashion and good taste a psych disorder now?)
-"I have noticed that [fishsandwich] often wears red or orange clothing"
-"Fishsandwich states that she only eats round foods" ( )
-"[Fishsandwich] is an 18 year old single female who claims to be Canadian" (emphasis added)
-"does not agree with dx [of Bipolar II] b/c [doctor] misspelled several words in assessment letter and could't say Greek terminology. Grandiose thought?"
-"[Fishsandwich] identifies as a 20-year-old Caucasian female. She does not appear to be her stated age. She does appear to be of her stated ethnicity." I have no words . . .
-"She spoke at an inappropriate volume during the assessment, which she claims is due to a throat infection for which she is currently taking [antibiotics]. Speech will need to be monitored at her next assessment."
-Under "mental state examination", somebody wrote that I had short hair
-Under "risk of harm to self or others" was written "complains of blisters on feet from excessive walking/running"

I just . . . I can't understand. There are orders of magnitude more instances of this kind of ******** in my files than there are references to me having any of the symptoms of schizophrenia as listed in the DSM. Mania or hypomania were mentioned 27 times, but bipolar was only mentioned 5 times (one of which was to say that the doc had ruled it out).

What the hell went on ??