[krisakira]

I wanted to make this thread because i thought it would be good to share with each other what some ridiculous things people have said to us because of our mental illnesses or problems. i hope none of the sharing makes anyone mad but just to get off our chest how crazy some people have reacted to us (while thinking WE are the crazy ones!) I am particularly thinking of one experience, where i went to the ER because of a panic attack (didn't know what it was at the time) when i was 17, and i was told by the doctor (not the nurses, but The doctor) that "You can stop shaking whenever you want. This is what we call bologna." He then proceeded to tell me that if I didn't stop shaking that he would stick me with a huge needle. Are you freaking KIDDING me?!

[Sabrina]

Doesn't sound like a very experienced doctor. I always found it ridiculous when family would tell me "you'll get over it", or "pick your lip up off the ground". If only it were that easy.

[beauflow]

i don't get it when ppl say all families are like mine. It makes me mad and laugh cause i'm like do you really want me to go in datail? I have been told ppl say that due to they don't want to talk about my stuff but for me it does the opposite of what they are "wanting"

Also that no one really truely changes. I don't believe that.
Also agree with Sabrina post

Krisakira, not all doctor are that well in tuned to the world. I had a doctor tell me once walk it off when i had sever disc issues and was limping after their treatment. Yeah you walk it off doc :-P i left that doc right after

[krisakira]

ha ha ha... "walk it off".... "you'll get over it"

No i don't have any respect for that doctor who told me those things.

The most recent and ongoing thing I keep being told is from my mom about my dad "you need to forgive him" when he was my abuser. i wish my mom would be angry at the man who hurt me.

I think the most thing we all have heard is "Just move on" or "get over it" as if its not that big a deal and that it's our decision to be miserable or something.

[sorrel]

My bloopers tend to come from Occupational Health, the workplace health assessment stuff.
I'd virtually only just walked in the door and this nurse says "What's your diagnosis, Bipolar?" I told her it was chronic major depression and PTSD symptoms, and she put down on the form that it was clinical depression [fair enough, it is] and a behaviour problem.. Bleh. I know my trauma stuff can make my behaviour squiffy, but if she'd put 'difficulties with behaviour due to having suffered abuse' it would have felt more human.

The last Occ. Health dr I saw said "You've been referred to us because your manager was freaked out because you said you were suicidal." Ouch.

[missbelle]

mine would be my physical issues..the arthritis.....As you know I use a walker most of the time......a couple people in this strange apartment bldg. thought I would get more exercise if I used the stairs..........instead of the elevator... I mean they REALLY mean't it......AH WOULD IF I COULD......AND DO WHEN THE ELEVATOR'S BROKE BUT....

Oh well, what can I say...its consider the source!!! ( their lights are on but no one is home)

[splitimage]

Best argument I ever got into with a Dr. was over whether or not I'd ever been an IV drug abuser. I had to get IV antibiotics due to a badly infected cut, but it said on my paper work that I was an alcoholic. So she started grilling me on what other drugs I'd used. I said none, I'm just an alcoholic. She then told me that she couldn't put the shunt in if I'd ever abused IV drugs. I told her again that I hadn't that I was just an alcoholic. We had a 15 min. "animated discussion" with me trying to convince her that I was just an alcoholic, and that it was safe to put an IV shunt in my arm. It was actually quite funny.

--splitimage

[newtus]

I had a therapist once say I need to get up and do something with my life. She said I need to start taking care of myself and get a job. This is was the second day of meeting her. I never went back.

i once had a 300 lb nutritionist get all tough love on me & tell me (i was abiout 145 lbs) that i was fat...

ah yeah...like you should be giving me good advice...

stumpy

[Sanada]

I had on my back something done to it. Something to help me out of self harming.

It is 'not' a tattoo, but something different (it worked for me -up to a point-, what I had done).

It is though 'body art', to look and see what I had done would be like looking at someone's 'back' and seeing tattoo 'like body art'.

Someone saw it, and they were aware of my self harm issues at the time. This is what they asked me when seeing my 'back'......... "Did I do that myself".

That has to have been the most silliest thing anyone has ever said to me.

I'm lucky that no doctor or therapist has never told me to pick myself up, or to look on the bright side.

[SophiaG]

Eh I've been called lazy and my mental illness has been referred to as "freaking out".

[MA423]

when I was a child and my step mother abuse me, I had to go see a specialist because of my heart problems. I had a doctor tell me with the marks on my body that I need to stop getting stab so much. I looked at him like hello I was abused and raped you jerk.

"You're too young to feel this way" I've been told this, or some variation of it, by three doctors now. Very helpful, yeah?

[krisakira]

That reminds me... I had a doctor tell me, "You can't be depressed. Your hair is too pretty!" .....

[nicoleb2]

My sister once said to me "if you are feeling suicidal, why can't you just tell me so you can feel better"

If it were so easy that I could just tell someone and be all better, don't you think I'd have done that by now????????

[Sabrina]

Oh yes, then there was the psychiatrist that refused to believe weight gain was from Effexor and had my husband set traps to see if I was sneaking food. I fired her.

[krisakira]

Originally Posted by Sabrina

Oh yes, then there was the psychiatrist that refused to believe weight gain was from Effexor and had my husband set traps to see if I was sneaking food. I fired her.

.............

[googley]

When I was a teen my T told my parents that my suicidal depression was teenage angst. This made my mom think that I didn't need T or meds. And totally screwed me over with my mom who then blamed me for saying I needed T and meds.

[Fresia]

A licensed therapist once told me, "If you don't want to be bipolar, you don't have to be. Medications won't help you. Instead think of yourself as something else and it will go away."

A whole new take on mind over matter, and my mind left to figure out my matters elsewhere.

[nicoleb2]

"That med shouldn't have that side effect, why don't you try it again"

Guess what, I have weird side effects, from a lot of meds. I'm not going to try something repeatedly after having bad side effects the first two times....

I was told if I did not find my special purpose in life, I was going to hell. I was not unduly concerned because I did not think hell could be much worse than what I was experiencing at the time.

[gma45]

First time I was in hospital I came to a craft table and the nurse said what is the matter with you?...You don't look like you belong in here as a patient! Well yep! I was pretty much out of my mind at the time!

[likewater]

When i had whooping cough and caught pneumonia a dr advised me to lose weight for my health. She was my exhusbands cousin and we were visiting her. Whole family was always on me about my weight. I was 145 pounds and puffed up from all oral steroids i was on. Weight loss was not my utmost concern.

She was also a psychiatrist that knew nothing of my issues but being from mexico she thought a lot of people here were depressed because they could afford to be. In mexico they were working too hard to survive to be depressed. Hmmm

T

[jnhuscg]

That if I sinned I would go to Hell, even if I had already repented

[likewater]

Oh and this one is funny and i almost got locked up for my reply. Whwn i cut my ankle tpo deep with a razor in college my roomate forced me to go to er with her. The psych nurse asked if i had trying to kill myself. By cutting my ankle ? Im not an idiot. So i replied if i wanted to kill myself, id be dead. For some reason that made her want to lock me up. Even my therapist thought that was ifnorant.