I never though the book that I read in 10th grade would be relevant to my life today, but today I was labeled with a scarlett letter. Today I had to go to the hospital, (Im okay, I just hurt my arm at work and have a HX of blood clots), once the nurse pawed through my chart and seen I had came in once for mental health problems that was it. Boom. She talked to me differently, treated me differently and told me "Maybe its just anxiety". Its like I had a sign above my head that read "MENTAL ILLNESS", I see now why many of us don't speak out and seek help medically for this very reason! To her, since I didn't have a blood clot this time (thank God), the pain and feeling that was taking my breath away was all in my head. "Maybe its just anxiety". I find that sentence so disgusting, I come in with a literal complaint and the nurse, whose suppose to have compassion, tells me its all in my head and basically scolded me about getting a CT scan done, and coming in at all. My husband says she wasn't scolding me but it damn sure felt like it. Lucky for me the PA was great and she and I discussed further and found I hurt my arm at work, nothing major, just some rest, heat/Ice and muscle relaxers. This is why people with mental illness don't reach out, nurses like that are the cause. No one like being branded with a Scarlett letter.