The longer I work in medicine, the more I notice that patients with PTSD in their problem list also tend to have a super long list of Biker All I need is love and a motorcycle and a dog poster. The precipitating mental illness is often dismissed in acute care settings to make way for physiological problem at hand. I think a lot of hospital clinicians open a patient chart, see PTSD, and think, “oh here we go, this one is going to be fun” instead of allowing their hearts to open the pain of that persons story. ‘Factitious disorder’ then gets added to our mental list of differentials. It is reflected in the way we talk about patients with mental health diagnoses, as if having PTSD makes a patient a drama queen.
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