Problem with access to medical care

AM I the only one who can't even get primary medical care because of stigma in the medical system?

I don't know. For me, the difficulty is cost and not having time to go to the doctor. Is there a reason the healthcare system would be prejiduced against you?

I've started to think that medical professionals hate trauma survivors. As soon as they find out, they change the way they behave and act all afraid of me. I've asked for help with this from everyone I can think of, but that just makes things worse, because it ends up turning out very bad. I've heard so many horrible statements right before communication with me is terminated: "it's not my job to help you," "I can't help you, deal with the anxiety yourself," "we don't help people like you."


Maybe they just hate me. I can't even get a flu shot.

Tbh I had given up on them
The stigma disgusts me

WOW

“we don’t help people like that”

WTF does that mean

And whatever happened to

DO NO HARM






They apparently want me to “stay alive”

But they have said

And I quote

That I am

“not a priority” - and then, as now, I used very little of their
“resources’ .....



Later, another doctor said I am

“an intelligent normal woman with severe anxiety”

What is “normal”

So they do not agree with each other within the buro crazy

I get my flu shots at the drug store, it's cheaper and faster.

The stigma is real and unfortunately the best thing you can do is put your trauma in a box and keep it separate from the gps and physical health so you can get treated for the physical stuff. Do keep working on trauma with your pdoc and T

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That would work in systems where it is “permitted” to keep things separate.
Here we do not have that luxury.

So who, in their “right mind” might not give up on those labelling incompetent jerks

Since providers are humans, some are more respectful than others...

Some at least try, within the limitations, to provide adequate “care”

Hugs and respectful regards

The absolute surest way to receive horrible medical care in the USA is to have an Axis 1 diagnosis in one's chart.

Are you in the US?

I have not had a problem with this. It might help to know where you are.
Primary Care has not been an issue.

One time I was scheduled for surgery and filling out my pre-op forms. I checked off anxiety and never added I have ptsd. The day of the operation the anesthesiologist said I see you have anxiety. Will it be an issue in the operating room, will you have it under control? I would hate to think what his comments would be if I added ptsd on the form. I don expect health care providers to fully understand. They should be respectful and mind what they say.

Yes, I am. ANd currently hiding in my home because of the pandemic. I couldn't get medical care before now, because of my trauma history, now I'm sure it would be a death sentence.

How insensitive and uncaring of that anesthesiologist That's a similar response I've gotten from nearly every doctor I've encountered. I'm in northern New England, US right now, hiding in my apartment as the pandemic rages on. I'm as good as dead if I go outside and catch the virus. I couldn't get help before, now, all I can do is hide.

I've had some very caring physicians and some not so caring. Because I need on going care for injuries related to my trauma history, most physicians have been pretty kind. The first question I get is "how did this happen"? When I answer them they respond either with, "oh, my I'm so sorry." Which makes me uncomfortable. Or they simply deal with the medical problem I've come in with without commentary. I prefer the latter. I don't want them knowing the details of my trauma unless it's a medically necessary for ongoing care.

What is a problem is when the physical injuries from the trauma interfere with being able to have appropriate treatment in the present. When I was being treated for breast cancer my oncologist wanted me to take a chemotherapy agent that would have necessitated reinjuring me for follow-up care. My psychiatrist and oncologist decided that the benefits of the medication were outweighed by the severity of the reinjury and the trauma it would inflict on me. So, I didn't get that particular chemo drug.

Another time I've had trouble was when a former therapist I had diagnosed me as having schizophrenia and the diagnosis got into my electronic medical record. First, I don't have schizophrenia. I am the child of schizophrenics but I don't have the illness. Because this therapist knew I had a lot of psychotic symptoms she just diagnosed me as having schizophrenia because of family history. My psychiatrist was quite unhappy when she misdiagnosed me and spent time trying to clean up my electronic medical record. It still shows up as my diagnosis sometimes though. When it does, the physician I'm being treated by assumes I'm not competent to make medical decisions and insists I have someone with me who can "understand and explain his instructions to me". That makes me totally nuts. I have two graduate degrees in the sciences and have been a biomedical researcher for most of my career. I know almost as much medicine as the physician does. I hate being treated like I'm stupid because of diagnosis prejudice of a diagnosis I don't even have.

^^^^^^^^^ This.