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Originally Posted by Stellatum
This is a book by a woman who was eventually diagnosed with an atypical form of myasthenia gravis, after years of being told her illness was psychosomatic. It was so severe that she became a quadriplegic, and actively pursued euthanasia. Her book is subtitled "A Journey into Uncertainty and Prejudice in Medical Diagnosis." http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/...taf?ti_id=6014
My thoughts are with those of you who are still fighting for a diagnosis. Don't give up.
Abby |
This is very interesting. So even myasthenia gravis gets called a "mental illness." Seems as if anything doctors do not understand gets called by some DSM diagnosis. So simple. Now I have heard of heart disease as well as an adrenal tumor being called "anxiety disorder" and endocrine issues being called "psychosomatic" and even a real vision problem at first called "mental". Lupus. Lyme Disease. Narcolepsy. Kleine-Levin syndrome. Parasites. Sjorgens. And the list goes on. How utterly absurd and infuriating!
The book "It's Not Mental" by Wolfson (link here:
http://itsnotmental.blogspot.com/) is one more new story like that. Talk about "Prejudice in a Medical Diagnosis"!!! And all over the Internet people have their horror stories.