My family is from China and my mom is very skeptical of doctors and medications way before we cane to the US, so this isn’t a US-Specific issue. I think its caused by bad experiences with doctors and/or the system overall, so the sentiment just spread by word of mouth.
My mom was very afraid that medicine would harm the fetus, so she told me that she did not like take any medications, like for example, painkillers or like flu medicine stuff, when she had me or my older brother. Also she said she breastfed us because she didn’t trust baby formulas.
As for vaccinations, we did get them… I think its because its like government policy and everyone just accepted it. Maybe because viruses were scarier so parents just relented and accepted (in their view) the risks of side effects of vaccinations.
(Edit: Also, I’m pretty sure the US would never let us immigrate if we didn’t have vaccinations, so that is a reason too)
But now, years later…
my problem is… I have depression and my mom is skeptical that I even have depression, and then simultaneously think I’m faking it and them also simultaneously thinks of me as having a disability like autism or something…
No mom wtf, (1) depression is not autism, (2) even if I did had autism, it doesn’t mean you can just abandon me as if you never had me.
I had Lexapro for a short time before discontinuing, and because it went untreated, it got worse, so my mom is blaming the doctor for the, what she calls, a “misdiagnosis” (emphasis on the quotes, because I 100% know I’m depressed) and that its Lexapro’s side effects that made me depressed.
And I’m a dependent and still young enough to be on their insurance (cutoff is like 26 I think), and the fear they instilled in me now make me second guess which psychatrist I can even trust, so now I’m like weeks into searching and still haven’t made an appointment because of decision fatugue and so I procrastinated…
Political situation makes me wanna go outside even less… and also Covid made me Germophobic so I’m kinda scared to go outside…
so yea…
Edit: Also, while they did get the Covid Vaccine, but they didn’t wanna go first, they waited like a few months until other people got it, because they are waiting to see if the, what they say as “lab rats” (the people who got vaccinated the earliest) have side effects, and if no bad news happens, then they’ll get vaccinated.
But I had a cousin that had a negative reaction to the 2nd dose of Pfizer so my mom panicked lol. But they already got the 2nd dose by then. If they had not, then my mom said she was considering to like not get vaccinated because of that story abouty cousin.
Not really an answer, but just for context:
My family is from China and my mom is very skeptical of doctors and medications way before we cane to the US, so this isn’t a US-Specific issue. I think its caused by bad experiences with doctors and/or the system overall, so the sentiment just spread by word of mouth.
My mom was very afraid that medicine would harm the fetus, so she told me that she did not like take any medications, like for example, painkillers or like flu medicine stuff, when she had me or my older brother. Also she said she breastfed us because she didn’t trust baby formulas.
As for vaccinations, we did get them… I think its because its like government policy and everyone just accepted it. Maybe because viruses were scarier so parents just relented and accepted (in their view) the risks of side effects of vaccinations.
(Edit: Also, I’m pretty sure the US would never let us immigrate if we didn’t have vaccinations, so that is a reason too)
But now, years later…
my problem is… I have depression and my mom is skeptical that I even have depression, and then simultaneously think I’m faking it and them also simultaneously thinks of me as having a disability like autism or something…
No mom wtf, (1) depression is not autism, (2) even if I did had autism, it doesn’t mean you can just abandon me as if you never had me.
I had Lexapro for a short time before discontinuing, and because it went untreated, it got worse, so my mom is blaming the doctor for the, what she calls, a “misdiagnosis” (emphasis on the quotes, because I 100% know I’m depressed) and that its Lexapro’s side effects that made me depressed.
And I’m a dependent and still young enough to be on their insurance (cutoff is like 26 I think), and the fear they instilled in me now make me second guess which psychatrist I can even trust, so now I’m like weeks into searching and still haven’t made an appointment because of decision fatugue and so I procrastinated…
Political situation makes me wanna go outside even less… and also Covid made me Germophobic so I’m kinda scared to go outside…
so yea…
Edit: Also, while they did get the Covid Vaccine, but they didn’t wanna go first, they waited like a few months until other people got it, because they are waiting to see if the, what they say as “lab rats” (the people who got vaccinated the earliest) have side effects, and if no bad news happens, then they’ll get vaccinated.
But I had a cousin that had a negative reaction to the 2nd dose of Pfizer so my mom panicked lol. But they already got the 2nd dose by then. If they had not, then my mom said she was considering to like not get vaccinated because of that story abouty cousin.
To be fair, in China that fear was well-founded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
She’s 100% right on this one though. While formula is better than nothing, it’s not as nutritious as actual breastmilk.