So my doctor abruptly started being shitty to me last appointment I had, interrupting me and talking over me. I was just there to get an asthma medication refill and he told me "don't call yourself asthmatic, lots of people get breathing problems sometimes because of allergies." I'm not the one calling myself asthmatic, a doctor at the hospital called me asthmatic when I went to the emergency room for a severe asthma attack and scolded me for not having an elaborate and expensive asthma care setup.
I literally don't have the time or money for this. I can't expect someone to help find out what's wrong with me when they dismiss already-diagnosed problems. I don't know what caused this behavior change in my doctor but I have a sinking feeling he found my mental health record. If true, then this would be the fourth time a health professional has dismissed my concerns entirely immediately after finding out I've struggled with depression. And I can't even speak up to defend myself, because even if I try to just raise my voice to be heard over someone interrupting, or if I stay after I've been dismissed because I did not get to finish what I needed to say or ask, I am told I'm "having an episode" and in a couple cases escorted away as I try to calmly explain that I just want an answer to the question I spent $200 to ask today.
Sometimes this awful treatment actually does start a real panic attack, and then it's all over and I can never go to that doctor's office again. Which still isn't fair, because as my medical records state, the only person I've ever tried to injure was myself.
