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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
I would be concerned that a false diagnosis was on my insurance record, particularly if it was stigmatizing. There have been horror stories about mental health patients showing up the ER with something totally unrelated - lije a broken ankle - and getting treated like **** because the staff could see their electronic health records and learned of their mental illness. Maybe that wasn't supposed to happen, but anytime you have a huge faceless impersonalized bureaucracy things like this can happen, as even my therapists I used insurance for admitted.
OP - many therapists while giving insurance diagnosis codes will use less stigmatizing ones, like adjustment disorder, depression, PTSD, partly because of the scenario mentioned above. So right away I don't like that she did that, and second - when she was just farting around in her own head, she diagnosed by her criteria, but to get paid she used DSM's? What a hypocrite.
And, it sounds like she offered you absolutely no guidance or support in dealing with her "diagnosis." She's right that statistics are not definitive, but it was on her to offer you reassurance about them.
I'd dump her if you can, and yeah, I might consult a lawyer too.
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I can tell you a few horror stories because i work at the ER as a med dr. So first is the colleague that, looking at the list of incoming patients, öh **** **** no not another one of these dumb borderline *****es, they just want attention, take 3 hours of your time they have nothing. We shouldn't cure not even bandage them because that reinforces their behavior". The girl, patient in question, had pneumonia and just needed chest xrays fluids and antibiotics. ï'm going to make her wait really long also".
(I reported him to my boss).
Also there's the general "i don't like psych patients they should just keep them at psych emergency all", there's the lady in strong pain that gets no painkillers while we wait for bloodwork to return because the journals say she has an anxiety problem so "she's just here to get high".
and so on. discrimination is real. terror was real for me, once i was very sick and had someone drive me to another ER 5 hours away because I couldn't go to my colleagues, they read the BPD diagnosis. I lived in terror of gossip, discrimination is real.
This she has done to me. An apology would be enough, but I won't get it.