Posted by sgbt5 on March 20, 2001, at 15:51:05
I am calm now and no longer really remember my anger and panic attacks at the intrusion I felt by the stupidity of medical practioners in getting medical history from me. Indeed, not all practioners are like this. Not all places have 3 clinics that share the same reception room and have three different medical history forms which I needed to fill out in order to get their services. Nor would those clinics have access to spurious psychiatric records that "diagnosed" me as "chronic borderline paranoid schizophrenic" at age 18 (in 1967).
However, I, and many people are treated, or are potentially treated, in a prejudiced manner because of such medical records and medical history.
I hope you are all young enough to escape some of this. Be wary when giving information, be distrustful (but don't show that you are) because there are real consequences that you will never ever get rid of if you aren't careful. For instance, insurance reports that will follow you the rest of your lives.
What this is really about, I think, is a culture that cannot deal with anxiety. We are expected to be automatons who stepfordly smile, comply and do whatever medical/psych people want. If that works for you, fine.
It doesn't work for me. Best wishes.
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