Sadly yes- I've been seriously physically ill for 4 years now and at the beginning when the docs didn't know what was wrong with me they tend to tell me it must be psychosomatic and to get ADs...it was such a relieve when they finally figured out what was wrong.
I'm not really mentally ill- that doesn't sound right- what I meant to say is that I don't suffer from any real mental disease (no dx for me) but due to stg that had happened to me I was suicidal and end up in mental hospital. I still have the scars and some docs (and ppl too) just look at them and start treating me differently.