Patients with mood disorders are usually treated differently by doctors, especially when they complain about pain… I actually told the physiatrist that. I was upfront about my mental health problems, and I told him that while I was stable, I know that I present with a flat affect at times because of all the meds I take, the fact that I'm in so much pain, and I visits to doctors are not social calls.

Since my s/s attempt, my PCP treats me like a totally different person. My pdoc says it's because mdocs just don't know how to handle/don't fully understand mental illness, especially as severe as mine. He's retiring at the end of the year… no idea who I will choose to replace him.