This is important because former psychiatric patients who go into hospital with physical problems are frequently misdiagnosed. A doctor may look at your medical records, find your psychiatric history and dismiss your complaints as being all in your mind. The consequences of this can be disastrous.
Call Me Crazy: Stories from the Mad Movement by Irit Shimrat (via psychoticcommie)
(the full book is available in pdf here, hosted by The History of Madness in Canada)
(via jesusdrank-blog)





