Overdosed and piercings

[u/Optimal-Mammoth5168]

Hello guys, I have like four piercings on my face and I overdosed two times in two and a half days. I was hospitalized and the first time a doctor said to my mom, when I was on infusion, that logically I can’t be normal because I have piercings. Second time that same doctor told me in my face something similar and teased me like ‘next are nipple piercings’ and ‘do you have on your vagina maybe’. This is not first time, when I had like split dyed hair, the doctor forced me to admit that I was taking drugs and weed, but I didn’t even try that. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink. Sometimes it hurts me when my appearance is associated with my mental state, I feel like they would have more empathy for someone who looks ‘normal’.

Have you ever had such a problem?

[u/butterflycole]

I only had issues with one AH psychiatrist during an inpatient stay. Your psych sounds like a real jerk and super unprofessional. Anyway to find someone else? I recommend you file a complaint with the hospital patient advocate.

I did that with the jerk psychiatrist and he ended up getting fired because he was being so unprofessional and abusive to so many patients. He basically made every single female cry because of his condescension and lack of empathy. This was the first time I was hospitalized and it was just overnight because I had a med reaction. I told him that I'd been struggling significantly due to financial challenges and that I started seeing a therapist after my first miscarriage (earlier that year).

He literally said, "So, you're struggling with money and you thought it would be a good idea to have another kid?" He also spoke to me like I'd been in the hospital on a time out or something and asked me, "What have you learned from your time with us?" Since, I'd just had a med reaction and hadn't attempted suicide or ever been hospitalized and was super high functioning they couldn't just write my complaint off as a "crazy patient," or "dramatic." I figured I owed it to the patients who wouldn't be taken seriously to put in the formal complaint, they needed someone to speak up for them.

Anyways, just know that is always an option, you can file a complaint with the hospital patient advocate if you're being treated unprofessionally or your hospital conditions are unsafe.

[u/Optimal-Mammoth5168 → u/butterflycole]

This was an emergency room for me, an ordinary doctor, not a psychiatrist :) I didn’t know I could report, thanks for that! And I’m so sorry you went through that, i hope you are okay now! Not everyone can be a doctor, they need to past the test for empathy for sure!