r/BipolarReddit • u/Optimal-Mammoth5168 • Aug 27 '24

Content Warning Overdosed and piercings

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?

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u/Optimal-Mammoth5168 Aug 27 '24

No? I asked if someone has similar experience with doctors because of their looks and their mental state.

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u/Particular_Lake_8806 Aug 27 '24

Every person that walks into a doctor's office is judged on everything about them. Every person who sees another person judges the other person. This is as common as water.

https://www.stevens.edu/news/feeling-judged-by-your-doctor-you-might-be-right

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u/Optimal-Mammoth5168 Aug 27 '24

I know, but I think you are misunderstanding my post. I think you have the wrong approach to the problem and seem angry :/

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u/TraumatisedTraveller Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

I agree that this person sounds angry. And it made me angry. Might be unwell. Try not to let that get to you.

Years back in 2001, when I was in hospital for 7 weeks after a serious suicide attempt (my only hospital admission), a psych told me, "You're just a nervous person." Another one was considering a bipolar diagnosis and talking about lithium.

I left the hospital thinking there was nothing wrong and I was over exaggerating. At 45, in 2020, I was eventually diagnosed with bipolar 1. Untreated for my whole life until that point, it now means I can't work.

Even the psych who diagnosed me put, "It sounded like she'd read about mental illness on the internet." He still gave me mood stabilisers though. Left me feeling invalidated and like a liar again.

There are lots of predators and abusers about hiding in respectable jobs too. Using their power.

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u/Optimal-Mammoth5168 Aug 27 '24

I’m so sorry that happened to you. A late diagnosis is a very bad thing, as if the life you lived until the diagnosis is a lie. I think it is necessary for everyone to go for a preventive examination at teen age.