“Have you spoken to a psychiatrist?”

Anyone else been asked this when seeking medical attention?

A while back my heart rate was stuck at 140 for nearly 4 hours, it just spiked after laying in bed out of nowhere, even after taking propanol it wouldn’t go down under 100 and started to become painful.

I went to the ER and the first thing the doc said to me was “have you spoken to a psychiatrist?”

The actual fuck.

Why are medical professionals (particularly ER doctors) so eager to blame things on mental health?

I’m male too so I can only imagine this would be worse for you females, women’s hysteria as they used to label it.

What would you have done in my situation?