I know I went though something similar but it was the nurses in outpatients... And get this... At the hospital that I work at. Yes I am a nurse and I am ashamed that my fellow nurses are so inconsiderate and cold.
People who do not suffer from anxiety and panic attacks do not understand because they themselves aren't or haven't experienced it. They cannot sympathize with us. They get frustrated. They think that it is just a waste of their time and shove you in a back room and make you wait for hours to see the doctor. They do not know that it is real for us, and that we are frightened.

I agree, and not only that but sometimes I question if they would be any more considerate and warm, if we had something "real" like lets say cancer.

Sometimes, I really wonder.

I think if it were something really really serious they are good. They do not consider anxiety anything serious, mostly silly. But it is a sickness that should be treated with care too. Myself I am a good nurse to all my patients. Sometimes you get tired and irritable but you have to set that aside and put the patient first, put yourself in their position.

Yeah well, if the patient ends up killing themselves or seriously disrupting their work/school life because of the anxiety symptoms, I don't think thats "silly" do you?

My opinion, no one need agree. But I find a lot of dr's very neglectful to their patients, big things included. Heart attack, sent me home. 22 episodes in 5 days. 2 trips by abulance to hospital. With abnormal heart rythum, sent me home. With proof

severe spinal injury with lack of strength throughout my whole body, spinal cord compromise, ignored it all still no surgery or anything. My perineal nerve has no signal to my brain and my privates went numb immedietly. Nothing. From them. Nothing. All this with proof. Still nothing.

Now I am pregnant inside my abdomen, no uterus, and when the hcg didnt come out(which is common in abdominal preg) they sent me home, no ultra sound or anything, and my stomach looks like it will explode anyday.

Very high risk, and sent home. Even if it wasnt a baby, my abdomen swollen like this, very serious condition. Need some medical attention. Now 27 weeks, just now got ultra sound ordered for tuesday.

My story, my opinion.

I give up. I'm not depressed, but i'm just frustrated and pretty much convinced that its hard to get any kind of help.