Glad you went to the hospital and you were taken seriously.

That's a huge fear of mine, the "mental illness" label is going to be used to dismiss "real" problems. Ya, okay I don't take psych meds anymore and any doctor I see won't be getting a detailed history but, I have scars all over my body from self injury (I grew out of that habit and got over some of the dellusional thinking invovled in that period of my life) but from a psychiatric perspective, I can get the crazy label.