Do you think it is right for people with a mental illness to be labeled?

I have a mental illness, I have been in these kinds of scenario's. Advocating is my biggest goal right now, because it doesn't happen to those that have cancer. It doesn't happen to those who have other life illnesses. I don't think labeled in any way is right. Here is an example of bad practice.

Me: Bipolar Disorder with ADD. Went to ER for breathing problems. I waited nearly two hours to be seen. When they found out I have a masters in Computer Science I was given the best treatment. I since have reported this hospital for bad practice. I unfortunately know that this will not go any further, but if I don't try it won't be addressed the next time someone with a mental illness comes in.

No it is not right. Mental illness is as real as heart disease or diabetes yet attitudes are very different. Even though you would think doctors would have the training to realize that mental illness is just as real as physical illness but they don't. The only way that I have found to with their attitudes is not to go back. Find a doctor that understands and that you feel comfortable with. Be very open at your first appointment about the problem you are having but also about your medications. I feel that the ones that deny that mental illness is as much an illness as anything physical are probability denying a problem of there own or someone close to them. It is hard to speak about mental illness even today because of stereotypes and attitudes developed years even decades ago. Most mentally ill if on the correct medication can at least live independently and not in a institution. The prejudice is to me one of the greatest reason some that need treatment refuse. There is no equality for people with mental illness. Even Social Security and Medicare "penalize" you if your disability is psychiatric.

Surprisingly, doctors tell me things like, "you'd be surprised how many people are bipolar." I live in rural minnesota.

If they are that blatant about discriminating against you/someone you know, as you state in your example, then that is worthy of filing a complaint with the administrator of the facility. You will want to take notes right away after the meeting so you don't forget exactly what was said. You will want to write a letter (keep it brief and mostly about the facts, and be fair).

I really have never been blown off like that, to be sure, and I have pretty serious bipolar. I just apologize for how emotional I am (If indeed, I am) and tell them to ignore that, and then I rattle off what I want to talk about. I make out an outline, so if I'm upset, I can still remember everything.

Also, don't make the mistake of thinking EVERY time a doctor/patient thing goes bad is because they know you have a mental illness- they may be a jerk to everyone, and you just ASSUME it is because you have a mental illness and discrimination.

Of course it isn't right, but it happens all the time. The stigma of mental illness still remains in this "advanced" society. Hopefully some day we truly will advance past all the stigmas/judgements we ourselves have created.

My father was mentally ill and in turn I was tormented as a child by the neighborhood kids who knew my dad was "crazy". The sad part is this - kids of that age didn't know "crazy" they were just repeating what they had heard their parents saying and so the judgments get passed from one generation to the next. It's doubly sad when this attitude comes from a doctor - supposedly someone who is "highly educated".

i'm a sixty 3 three hundred and sixty 5 days old bi-polar who has commonplace something has been incorrect with me because my early young children yet I not in any respect knew what it became. It wasn't till my previous due 40's or early 50's that i stumbled on out what the area became and the treatment saved my existence. after I knew the determination of indicators of my ailment i became able to seem back at behaviors I experienced which affected my existence negatively and finally had an awareness of them; a reason. you won't be able to imagine the alleviation it really is to provide a recognition to a ailment because purely then can that's proper dealt with. I surely have my united statesand downs yet because of medicine they don't very last as lengthy and in basic terms understanding that makes it a lot less complicated to address my indicators. i comprehend even as to position low and after I may nicely be respectable business enterprise. i imagine the numbers are authentic. The nuclear kin isn't almost as solid because it became once; that's splintered by technique of divorce, drugs and alcohol. Divorce is a lot extra well-known in today's society and it has an unfavorable effect on children. i imagine there is extra to be depressed about. If human beings are not depressed, bi-polar or schizophrenic there are the nature complications. yet i wish that maximum folk of persons are mentally healthy.

unfortunatly, there is alot of stigma attached to mental illness. I work one on one with people who have mental health diagnosises, and the way they are are treated everywhere is diffferent. Doctors tend to think that if you have a mental illness, the medical problem maybe all in your head, because a small percentage of those persons have hypochondria. It really is lame that people are veiwed this way

no. regardless if it has to do with the disorder. Doctors are still ignorant of the mental health disorders. You will have to fill them in from now on. Print out a symptom sheet and info on disorder and make them put it in your file after you have discussed it with them. We all have to work on getting rid of the stigma attached to mental ilnesses.

No it is not right. I am mentally ill and sometimes I have to go to urgent care centers for migraine headaches - luckily they know me there and I have been diagnosed with migraines by a neurologist, but before that I had problems, including one doctor who insisted I was a drug addict.

Unfortunately, you get to be treated in a different way, that's right... But it is of course a very wrong attitude... The World Psychiatric Association is trying to change all this stigmatization, hopefully they will manage it in a way...