Consider me upset and disappointed (as if redditor's feel any other emotions
). And I was actually going to make a post about how I've been pleasantly surprised at the lack of mask pushback the past 6ish months at doctors appointments. Which is GREATLY appreciated as I've been dealing with a newer chronic health condition, on top of my grandma who's on oxygen needing her doctors appointments as well.
Long story short - I asked my doctor to sign a medical exemption form for me so I can wear a mask to this upcoming necessary appointment. I was once again pleasantly surprised, she didn't question me and I felt like she was finally taking me seriously.
I opened the envelope today and read what she wrote: "Severe Generalized Anxiety Disorder". Not my chronic migraines, or the fact that I'm a care giver. We never discussed this "severe" anxiety disorder and I thought she finally recognized that a) my precautions are not because of my anxiety and b) my increased anxiety was due to my undiagnosed chronic migraines that I developed from a hormone medication SHE put me on.
I'll fully admit that my anxiety got much worse before my migraines were properly addressed. It was an uphill battle where I was not being heard by my doctor - the "it's just anxiety, anxiety, anxiety" bit until I had hospital worthy chronic pain...
But my family and I have masked and taken Covid precautions since 2020. It's infuriating that wearing a mask is likely the reason why my doctors first answer to everything is anxiety. Like pardon me for being educated and trying to protect my family. I guess that makes me incredibly anxious. So be it.
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I don't understand why some people are so hesitant to accept a MH diagnosis, particularly when its clearly an abnormal behavior. Could also be OCD or another anxiety disorder, GAD usually doesn't present situationally and instead is a constant state of heightened anxiety & catastrophizing that a mask wouldn't assist with.
Given it is a situational anxiety issue /u/reading_daydreaming is also a very very good candidate for CBT so might not need magic pills.
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I figured it was a foid. How is Gock-And-Ball-Torture gonna help?
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I more don't understand redditors like this who won't accept it. They would love it and could still hold an incredibly external locus if control.
But getting a mental health diagnosis, there's no going back if it gets out, and making it official is the first step to it getting out. Career, relationships, even legal testimony, anything it can bleed into as a reason to be distrusted, discredited, dismissed. Treatment is an r-slured crapshoot of finding a needle in the haystack therapists/assistance and cycling through drugs that may just not work, so you try another after 6 weeks, and another. That's just the surface of the psychiatric industrial complex's puzzle box to get trapped in. And this can all start with some anxiety, if it's officially a disorder. And it feels like weakness, to a degree it is. You get a real disease and you usually have to follow some explicit rules - no more soda, stay off your right foot and then be along for the ride with the doctors. Mental health is work, every daily issue is time to work with discipline on training yourself better.
Any person without a twitter list of sexualities and diseases doesn't want that curse to start and will avoid it, to the point of denial.
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Not one single person is gonna read all that
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You're right, because I realized after posting that that redditors make sense. It's not about fixing things, so there's be no point in it being anxiety if the point was to be more fixable.
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Thats a robot sweaty
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I know cute twink, sometimes I talk to the bots. Snappy sometimes gives me a hummer too.
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