Posted by vwoolf on January 8, 2006, at 6:08:51
In reply to Re: Hospital medical record » Berberis, posted by James K on January 8, 2006, at 2:01:54
I am battling to get hold of my hospital records from 30 years ago. I was hospitalized three times, for a few months each time, in psychiatric wards or hospitals, but I have never known my diagnosis or why I was sent there. I have very little memory of that time at all, except that I was depressed and was given ECT. Possibly the memory loss was due to the ECT. I have always believed that there was nothing really wrong with me, and that I should never have been treated for mental illness, but I am not sure. Three times is a lot for the psychiatrists to have been wrong.
The hospitals tell me that their records going back that far have been destroyed, but recently I discovered that they are kept in the university archives and only authorized persons can access them. My t has agreed to help me get them - on condition that she sees them first and that she will not show them to me if she thinks they will be hurtful. I suppose I have to trust her. It's the only way I will be able to integrate this part of my history.
But I must say it feels a bit like an archaelogical dig.
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