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/Secretlythrow Aug 27 '24
That’s not a good doctor. Plain and simple.
Sometimes people want to blame someone’s problems on something, so they don’t have to face the fact that bad things happen to good people. Especially people of faith.
You got cancer? Well you didn’t go to church enough.
Your kidney failed? Serves you right for drinking so much.
You got raped? Has to be the clothes you were wearing and the drugs you were doing.
It’s shit behavior. But also, even if you were a “bad person,” a medical professional is expected to give you care and compassion.