My general practitioner is a very invalidating man. I went to see him when I was first struggling with psychotic depression. I complained about hallucinating noises and voices and he referred me for having "anxiety," so I felt quite ignored. He would whinge to my parents about how dangerous antipsychotic drugs were and demanded that I quit using them so my parents began to question antipsychotics a lot, which are actually much safer than other mood stabilizers according to my psychiatrist. I am currently on Latuda and I have experienced no side effects aside from mild restless legs. I have used anti-anxiety and antidepressant medications and they did not function for me at all. Anti-anxiety medications exhausted me whereas antidepressants desecrated my mental state. He would say things like "she just isn't sleeping, she isn't psychotic" which is totally ignorant because it is an issue that I had for a long time that was so difficult to endure. I was sleeping well (6-10 hours a night) and *still* hallucinating. I also had unfathomable hunches about my laptop being monitored and my mind being read. When I was younger, he completely invalidated my ADHD (which is severe) only to complain about how I should have been using medication for it about a year later. Due to his opinions, my parents became unfavorable to me using medication which reactivated my severe depression and mood swings prompting me to attempt suicide. I cannot even educate my mother because she firmly believes that antipsychotics send people insane. Now, I have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and I feel as if he is going to invalidate that. I definitely have borderline. It is the issue that I am enduring, and I am glad that the demon has a name. The report of my suicide attempt has been forwarded to him as well, and I seriously believe that he is going to be an asshole about that. I am seeing him this week for birth control, so please pray for me. Every time I inquired about birth control, he was an asshole about it. It seemed as if he was opposed to providing me birth control, which is completely insane because I am 18 years old... it discomforts me because is seeing a doctor not supposed to be an experience devoid of judgement?

I do not think that this would sound "pleasant" (actually a tad racist) but he is ethnically "brown" and probably Muslim. Brown people subvert psychiatric medication and all of that, so I think that perhaps he is integrating his culture into his work? He did not seem to have positive opinions about psychiatric medication any time it was mentioned. He always spoke of using "natural remedies." He would always say things like "eat healthy, get some sun, exercise" and it irritates me because does anyone not understand how to live with severe mental illness? You lack the motivation to do such a thing in the first place.