One thing I think the majority of us psych patients have happened to us, is that the assumption is made that we have no bodies and therefore we cannot become physically ill.

If a doc learns you have a mental diagnosis, anything physical you look for help for, might be thrown back at you as being your MI talking.

I'm not saying it always happens like this. Some docs actually take their time and investigate your physical illness. But I think a lot of us, at least once, have searched treatment just to hear it is in our heads.

It is really, really dangerous to brush people off like that. Especially since people with MI are MORE prone to physical illness.

Also people with MI, if rejected from health care, rarely find strength to go back if their physical symptoms get worse. Even more reason to take them seriously.

Are there really THAT many hypochondriacs to justify this behavior towards us?