I've seen medical personnel change their attitudes toward me once they hear that I have a psychiatric history. I come in with severe stomach pain. At first they're helpful and sympathetic. Then they find "depression/anxiety" on my record. After that, they become much less sympathetic. I'm told I'm having a panic attack and I need to calm down. I'm put on the back burner and pretty much ignored while they take care of everybody else first. When it turns out I have gastroenteritis, they're still looking at me sideways.
It seems like once you have a mental health diagnosis, everything that's going on with you has to be something psychiatric. You're never presumed to be physically ill ever again.
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