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Originally Posted by BipolaRNurse
What's hard is being stigmatized and marginalized because you have a mental illness. Especially when you go to a doctor who doesn't know you and they want to discuss your psych history before they even look at you for the complaint you came in for. Or you go to the ER with a broken toe and the VERY FIRST thing they see in your medical record is your bipolar diagnosis, and then they're reluctant even to prescribe pain medication.
I'm a well-educated R.N. with a responsible job, but to some I'll always be just another crazy person whose word carries little credibility. That is supremely frustrating and I think it's one of the worst things about having this illness.
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YOU ARE SO ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ABOUT BEING STIMATIZED AND MARGINALIZED because you're bipolar. I was viciously victimized by my then wife and the police wouldn't even talk to me about it, much less investigate. You se, we're "non-persons" just like the Jews in Nazi Germany, or the slaves before the Civil War. And of course the word is out there that we suffer delusional thoughts and beliefs, so we deserve no credibility. YOU COULDN'T BE MORE CORRECT!!!!!!