This is me right now because I have been dizzy and exhausted for a few hours despite not doing anything tiring today at all. I have a litany of symptoms and a handful of diagnoses, but not really an explanation for the laundry list of dysfunction. I've been trying to get help from doctors for years and always am blown off, gaslighted, condescended to, and ignored. If you don't walk in with something they can see with their eyeballs (like when I saw the allergist and presented with visible rash and hives, so I actually got tests and results from him), they don't want to help you or even look. I gave up fighting after seeing the neurologist who I thought was going to finally Give Me Answers, and instead was blown off for the thousandth time. I am too sick and too tired to fight. I needed help years ago. I get worse it seems with every passing month. I'm 40 but live like I'm 90. I've been needing to find a new doctor for a few months now - because my insurance stopped being accepted by the one I had - but I haven't done it yet, because why bother? This is just life now.
That's been how I've felt since that neuro appointment. I can't tell you how many trips home from the doctor I've walked down the street crying.
You could chalk up the negligence to many factors I suppose, but the main one I suspect is because I have a mental health diagnosis. Most of the blow offs include me getting told I have anxiety (I don't have anxiety), and that I should meditate (I do), even when I told them my therapist agreed there was something beyond mental health wrong with me and she really wanted me to see a neurologist.
Get labeled as crazy, and nobody will ever believe a word you say again.