Regarding “Fuck you every doctor who told me my digestive problems were in my head”: psychosomatic illnesses are a real thing, and sometimes the solution to an apparently physical problem really is psychiatric. BUT if a non-psychiatrist physician believes this is what’s going on, THEY SHOULD REFER THE PATIENT TO A PSYCHIATRIST, not dismiss them. Imagine someone coming to a primary care doc with unstable angina and the doc said, “Ah, it’s in your chest, whaddaya gonna do” without referring to a cardiologist.
Regarding “Fuck you every doctor who told me my digestive problems were in my head”: psychosomatic illnesses are a real thing, and sometimes the solution to an apparently physical problem really is psychiatric. BUT if a non-psychiatrist physician believes this is what’s going on, THEY SHOULD REFER THE PATIENT TO A PSYCHIATRIST, not dismiss them. Imagine someone coming to a primary care doc with unstable angina and the doc said, “Ah, it’s in your chest, whaddaya gonna do” without referring to a cardiologist.