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I have fatigue, headaches (now looking if they're migraines), and dizziness. Before even being considered to be POTS and migraines I was diagnosed with Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. As I was not believed by my head doctor to actually be in any pain. I then 2 years later after multiple failed doctors went to urgentcare for the all of it again (for the second time), and got sent to a Psychiatrist who made me take antidepressants. They obviously did nothing as that wasn't my issue.

My friend has a stomach issue that got dismissed for a long time as just anxiety. Another friend was misdiagnosed for years before getting to her Reumatoid Arthtritis. I have at least 7 more examples of people I know.

When something is wrong with the body, doctors can and do tend to dismiss it as mental. And I do think it has to do with gender in this case as most of the people that I know that have had this happen to them are women/were socially imposed as women/fem presenting.

when a mental health service demands compliance, they're threatening to cut you off from services for enforcing your boundaries. 'i will not take that medication that gives me awful side effects and doesn't work' is non-compliance and grounds for termination from the program. 'i will not attend group therapy on the weekends' is non-compliance and grounds for termination from the program. 'i will not answer a call from staff past 8pm' is non-compliance and grounds for termination. 'i will keep my door locked while i'm sleeping' is non-compliance and grounds for termination. 'i will attempt to make friends and seek peer support from other members' is non-compliance and grounds for termination.

i also witnessed a patient begin the process to leave against medical advice and still be delayed over 24 hours before discharge. so he stayed for four full days against his will, the last day in violation of his rights by the law, and likely had to pay $3-5k out of pocket for the pleasure.

it’s not. this is barely disguised eugenics that they have ACKNOWLEDGED may (will) do more to harm than good for people with abnormal mental states. what else could the end result of finding a “mental illness gene” be than a reason to further marginalize those who are already marginalized, already branded as more likely to be (or even inherently) “mentally ill” and eventually discourage them to reproduce, either by coercion or force?

that actually would probably have killed me.

lupus psychosis is caused by an autoimmune disease (literally brain inflammation), it's not psychiatric. antipsychotics do absolutely nothing to help lupus psychosis. the only thing that can improve lupus psychosis is treatment for the lupus itself.

when people with lupus psychosis are admitted to a psych ward with a misdiagnosed psychotic disorder they often die. when people with lupus psychosis are in the psych ward they are often put on increasingly high doses of antipsychotics and other psychiatric drugs and aren't discharged. they are often denied other medical care because it's "unnecessary" and often because "it's just their psychosis"

that and i think when you're not in the pits of hell, the tired mental illness cliches like eat healthy do yoga go outside make a lot more sense.

if you have an unpleasant interaction with someone else who is mentally ill, you can tout the fact that youre in therapy and on medication, something they're clearly in dire need of. you can talk about how theyre obviously unhealed and must hate themselves and they need to fix themselves like you have. you're better than them.