Hey y'all wanted to share my story to help raise awareness and validate others. I am diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. Sometimes when I go to the doctor they will write off my issues as being anxiety related. This makes my mother and my primary care doctor so angry. Today I had a sort of extreme case as I cought COVID and tested positive in the morning. By night I was struggling to breathe and as I have a history of asthma my mom brought me to the hospital. I couldn't even talk and was making a high pitched whistle noise with every breath. The doctor said I was hyperventilating and started asking me a million anxiety questions. He diagnosed me with an asthma attack that was made worse by anxiety and then sent me home. This would normally upset me but the respiratory specialist that saw me during that time said that I wasn't having an asthma attack at all and my throat was actually swelling shut. He said he thought that was the case because of my hyperventilation as with an asthma attack it is harder to breathe but not like this where every time I took a deep breath my airway completely closed. Regardless I was given steroids that would assist both issues. Im not super upset at this particular case of one doctor just writing me off as an anxious nutcase partially because he seemed young and new and the ER was packed so I'm sure he was just following Occam's razor and diagnosed me with the simplest solution. However, this is not the first case of this and I wanted to just let you know that if you are ever in a situation where a doctor jumps straight to saying most or all of your problems are mental not physical because anxiety is in your health chart, then find someone else who will listen to you. Also bring family members with you. My mom is my biggest advocate and she was angry at how quickly he wrote it off. Without her at doctor's offices there would have been situations where I couldn't speak up for myself. It helps to have someone else be able to say "I've seen her panic attacks and this is not one of them". Your pain is real, you know your body and you know when something is wrong and if any doctor reads this then please don't be so quick to judge. In my case my health issues caused my anxiety, my anxiety didn't cause my health issues. I don't know who needs to hear this but you aren't alone.