After trying to ignore stiffness, pain, and loss of movement in my neck, shoulders, and back over the last couple of months, I've finally given in and am going to the chiropractor. I was rear-ended in an auto accident early last October, and I suspect it's caught up with me. The chiroman said I have the neck of someone who is at least 70 years old.
Lovely.
He's also encouraging me to get the medical bills paid by the driver-at-fault's insurance. The trouble with that is the stigma of mental health issues. It would go fine for anyone else who got hit then a couple months later went to the chiropractor. BUT with a mood disorder, they are going to blame the mood disorder for the whole mess, one way or another.
If I stubbed my toe, a lot of people would say it was just a result of my mood disorder. That's how ignorant a lot of people are, including some medical "professionals."
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mental illness, pain, stigma
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Ugg, my neurologist is a little Napoleon. It seems he forgot to whom he was speaking, because he told me that people who are a little loopy are always worse than they seem. He said they are worse, because they are trying not to look loopy. This conversation started over my reluctance to switch to Neurontin, since a person I know with bipolar who took it went nuts and beat her child. I didn't get the bipolar part out, so he went on blathering about people using medication as an excuse for doing what they would have done anyway.
Before I knew I had a medical mental problem, I was just being myself, so I do not agree with Dr. Neurology's assessment on the slightly "loopy" people trying to act "less loopy." Of course, I try to check myself and make sure I'm not overreacting, but I'm still acting however I act and analyzing later to see if I need to ask for more or less medicine. The level of control I have over myself...
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bipolar, doctors, medication, mental illness
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