Posted by brynb on January 29, 2013, at 14:36:05
In reply to Mislabeling Medical Illness As Mental Disorder, posted by firemonkey on December 9, 2012, at 6:56:24
Good post, fm. I've always taken issue w/ the DSM. It's archaic and too static of a system for trying to compartmentalize and categorize that which can't be.
I've been having a really hard time over the past 2/3 months w/ physical medical issues and problems and the docs are having a difficult time figuring things out. While being ill and in and out of the hospital has no doubt worsened my anxiety and depression, it's a completely separate issue.
With that, after a virus and a pompous pdoc pushed me into a med washouout after I was (medically) hospitalized, I went to the psych ER where former pdoc was on staff, and after waiting 14 hours, the attending pdoc questioned me as if I were being arrested, asking me how I was so med savvy (I told him it was because I suffered from depression since I was 14 and I read/studied everything I could), why was I so irritable (um, depression perhaps?? bipolar maybe?? my period?? waiting 14 hours to see him??), and how was it that a usually healthy woman was all of a sudden sick over the past few months. I said it worried me too, and his response was that it sounded like Munchausen's. I told him to "heal thyself" and played nice so I could get the hell out of there.
Sorry, didn't mean to make it about me, but I thought I'd share my experience that mirrors your concern. That, and to say I too am not a fan of the DSM. Not at all.
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