为所爱的人心理健康宣传

嗨,梅根,谢谢你写这篇文章,你的话给了我力量。我有同样的初级保健医生在过去的20年。在过去5到6年,我一直知道她越来越频繁的解雇任何疾病我可能抑郁和焦虑。除了我的年度考试,我只有十二(12)和她约会了疾病……在20年。两年前,我开始有不寻常的痛苦的症状和燃烧在我鼻子、喉咙和嘴巴。他们已经开始罕见,温和,但在几个月内已经成为常规,相当痛苦。她命令一个电池的测试回来正常结果。她告诉我我的症状可能是由于焦虑和局部Rx的利多卡因写道。我继续恶化,6周后做了另一个和她约会。她提到我ENT医生发现除了被我排除任何险恶的ENT肿瘤学家。 The ENT oncologist could not have been more dismissive or disrespectful to me. After he received the results of some tests he ordered, he stood in front of me with 3 medical students attending and proceeded to tell me my problem was "aural" or "global" in nature. I asked him if he could explain that further. He smirked and said, "Well, I see on your chart you have been in treatment for anxiety and depression for many years, I think that has more to do with your symptoms than you might believe." I could have cried. I sat there feeling humiliated and angry. I called the nurse who attends my primary care doctor and asked if I could read my records as they appear when a referred physician sees them. She emailed me the copies sent to both the ENT and the ENT oncologist. Under my name, birthdate, height, weight and blood pressure, in bold print were the words, "In treatment for severe anxiety and depression since 1997". I felt like I'd been hit with a brick! She was selling me out as a "head case" to any doctor she had referred me to. Upon further investigation, I found that same information appearing in the same way on every single mammogram I'd had, an ER visit I'd had for a bad fall and on a surgical report from an outpatient surgery I'd had a few years ago. I receive all of my medical treatment, except for psychiatry, at a University Hospital and Clinics. (my health insurance is only accepted by that institution) I have been the victim of unforgivable mental health stigma at a research/teaching university hospital and clinic! When I think of what I have been subjected to and judged upon by people who should know better, I feel sick to my stomach. What more, I think of all the medical students who have attended every appointment I've had and know they've been trained in practicing the same stigma as the physicians who teach them. Stigma is alive and well in the medical community. I hope everyone who reads this will make it their business to get their hands on their medical records and demand that their mental health problems are noted correctly and placed in the proper perspective. I feel utterly betrayed by this woman I've trusted for so many years. I need to address this with the institution, but I've been afraid. I have a feeling my experience and complaint will be summarily dismissed, healthcare institutions like university hospitals place great value on protecting their own.

我有遇到这不仅仅与心理健康,但其他医疗状况。我不得不站起来给医生几个家庭成员,包括我的女儿。是很吓人的。我不仅学会了把字的东西,特别是我的直觉和知识的情况不同意他们的观点。这是一个困难的事情但我很高兴你做到了,我很高兴我做到了。不幸的是,它使我对医学专家。保持强劲梅根!我知道这很难。

这是一个非常重要的共享和公开讨论的话题。虽然想烦心的事情,不幸的是这些实例发生如此重要,我们都意识到我们可以更好的相互支持和我们所爱的人。精神疾病绝对不等于失败。我很高兴你能够支持你的丈夫,感谢你分享这个经历所以别人可以从中学习。