MH can mean difficulties with accessing help

[LovelyBath77]

for physical health?

Some times in the past I have been acutely ill (needing surgery in the end, after they sent me home on more than one occasion) but what happens is the doctors see my anxiety more than anything else and assume my symptoms are psychosomatic or as a result of anxiety. Mind you have had some unusual physical problems as well which probably complicates things.

Why can't my doctors or the people who triage at A and E see past this and accept more than one thing can be going on at once? I'm really scared of being sent home again, even though the GP has now set up a care plan for admission to hospital and put this on the 11 system to help me if it happens again.

In that article it says about some ways to deal with it, as well. However I don;t think docs like it if you go from one to the next 'doctor shopping' and ask for more tests. In fact that can make it worse.

Odd, so sorry to hear that.

Reiss, Levtan, and Szyszko first coined the term “diagnostic overshadowing” to describe the tendency to assess individuals with intellectual disability less accurately (Reiss, Levitan, & McNally, 1982; Reiss, Levitan, & Szyszko, 1982; Reiss & Szyszko, 1983). Subsequent research has consistently demonstrated that the cognitive deficits displayed by an individual negatively impacted the ability of clinicians to make accurate judgments with regard to other co-occurring disorders

This is interesting as they refer to 'intellectual disability'