satis17

I did have that similiar experience also, I went to the ER for chest pain, though I had already rationalized at my age 32, with no cardiac history, I was 99% sure in wasn't a MI BUT it was something. Of course you say chest pain and you re dragged back quickly, I even told the doc, I didn't think it was cardiac, Due to terminology he found out I was a nurse and suddenly again, I knew nothing, It wasn't cardiac, and he told me panic and anxiety to which I replied I had thought of that nd already tried relaxing, after 4 mg of ativan the pain was no better. A chest X-ray showed bilateral pneumonia and a P.E. THEN he had the nerve to tell well your a nurse you should have told me your trouble breathing was significant. MY SAO2 was 84%, I thought spoke for itself. Being a nurse make you either inconvientantly competent or convientantly incompetent, which ever seems to serve the purpose at the time. Thank for your reply

Hi, I've been in nursing for 16 plus years and due to happenstance have found myself moving on. Part of my journey included a tough wake up call, waking up in an inpatient psychiatric unit after having a psychotic manic reaction to a SSRI. Even after I became stable, as a psychiatric patient I had absolutely zero credibility, I was even patronized when I asked about the medications I was given. In the begining, when I tried to explain that I was a nurse, my statements were quoted as part of my "psychosis." The story does go on and on from this point, but my interest is now if other people have had any simliar experience. Also, in stories of losing jobs or licenses due to mental illness. Even the experence or stima or prejudice by people in the medical or mental health profession towards your mental illness. You can either reply directly to this thread or to me privately. I am using the information in a paper describing the marginalization of people with mental health challenges, and that even the use of the term mental illness reinforces marginalization- it seperates it from a physical illness though many are chemical imbalances in the brain and COULD be classified as a physical illness. etc etc etc.