Some doctors (but thankfully fewer than there used to be) insist on believing
that HCV usually has no symptoms, and dismiss the patient’s complaints as
being “all in their head.”
Some HCV+ patients have been treated for depression for many years before their
actual diagnosis of HCV was uncovered. Much is still unknown about the
hepatitis C virus, and many physicians have not had much experience
treating it. Many doctors are not yet familiar with the research which
legitimizes the various symptoms which go along with this virus
Emerging illnesses such as HCV typically go through a period of many years before they are accepted by the medical community, and during that interim time patients who have these new, unproven symptoms are all too often dismissed as being “psychiatric cases.” This has been the experience with HCV as well.
