Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Psychoschiene gefahren
English translation:
and didn't (immediately/simply) assume I was nuts/crazy/mentally disturbed
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Ramey Rieger (X)
Feb 28, 2018 16:20
6 yrs ago
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German term
Informed, idiomatic translations
Native in: English 
Works in: German to English, Portuguese to English
Psychoschiene gefahren
German to English
Medical
Slang
Social media comment
This appears in a comment on social media. I wasn't given the original post that this person is responding to, but the project is for a pharmaceutical company that is launching a new health care initiative.
Full comment:
"Ich habe Dutzende Ärzte gebraucht um meine Diagnose zu bekommen, obwohl ich mehrfach meinen Verdacht äußerte. Bis ich endlich Ärzte getroffen habe, die auch auf seltene Krankheiten untersucht haben und nicht die psychoschiene gefahren sind. Naja, inzwischen sind die Schäden zu stark, als dass dies nochmal jemand anzweifelt. Aber man steht so blöd da, wenn man bettlägerig ist mit Muskelschwund, Halluzinationen, Sicca-Syndrom und B-Symptomatik und die Krankenkasse fragt warum man denn noch krank ist. ??"
Something like "did not drive me crazy", maybe? My understanding is that previous physicians were clueless about the illness and it was not until this person met a doctor specializing in rare diseases that he or she was correctly diagnosed.
Full comment:
"Ich habe Dutzende Ärzte gebraucht um meine Diagnose zu bekommen, obwohl ich mehrfach meinen Verdacht äußerte. Bis ich endlich Ärzte getroffen habe, die auch auf seltene Krankheiten untersucht haben und nicht die psychoschiene gefahren sind. Naja, inzwischen sind die Schäden zu stark, als dass dies nochmal jemand anzweifelt. Aber man steht so blöd da, wenn man bettlägerig ist mit Muskelschwund, Halluzinationen, Sicca-Syndrom und B-Symptomatik und die Krankenkasse fragt warum man denn noch krank ist. ??"
Something like "did not drive me crazy", maybe? My understanding is that previous physicians were clueless about the illness and it was not until this person met a doctor specializing in rare diseases that he or she was correctly diagnosed.
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Change log
Feb 28, 2018 17:42: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Medical"
Mar 14, 2018 07:28: Ramey Rieger (X) Created KOG entry
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and didn't (immediately/simply) assume I was nuts/crazy/mentally disturbed
Something like this
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Björn Vrooman
: Considering the register, "mental" on its own should be fine. Look, I found an old yearbook: 'Favourite Saying What do you think I am, 'Mental or what?'" http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/collegian/1966_67.pdf
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The good old days!
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philgoddard
: This is basically the same as my answer, but loses the "Schiene fahren" metaphor.
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And gains the colloquial aspects of the source text.
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Lancashireman
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Thanks, Musicman.
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franglish
: //As things are, I could stand in for the snow-woman I've been wanting to make all winter but couldn't for lack of snow. Meanwhile, my 5-star bird restaurants are avidly frequented.
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Keep WARM!//Yes, same here. Too bad we can't upload pictures here, I'd send you my last snow face - it was all the snow allowed.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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philgoddard
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go down the psychology road
In other words, say it was all in the patient's mind.
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Note added at 14 mins (2018-02-28 16:34:57 GMT)
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Or route.
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Note added at 14 mins (2018-02-28 16:34:57 GMT)
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Or route.
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Michael Martin, MA
United States
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English
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Creativity wins in the long run
Native in: German (Variant: Germany) 
, English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English
Related KudoZ points
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didn't try to pin it on psychological factors/problems etc
Easy culprits..
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did not consign me to the psycho treadmill
"Another possibility of many"
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Darrel Knutson
Germany
Germany
Native in English
Germany
IT trainer & translator, English teacher
Native in: English
Works in: German to English
instead of just referring me/sending me off for psychological evaluation
As I imagine my two medical doctor brothers would say it, not necessarily their patients. In a quick search at Google it turns out that a Crohn's patient wrote on Facebook "my illness is all in my head and as soon as i accept there is nothing wrong with me i will be fine... he has also gone to the extent of referring me for psychological evaluation stunned"
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the crazy train
"Until I finally found doctors who looked into the possibility of some rare disease and didn't assign me to the crazy train."
Just a suggestion, if you want to retain a sense of slang. And a reference to Schiene.
Just a suggestion, if you want to retain a sense of slang. And a reference to Schiene.
Discussion
Here's an alternative that would warrant some consideration in this context:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychobabble
Two examples:
"This retrovirus should have been discovered at the same time as AIDS and the last few miserable decades of my life could have been avoided…No more excuses and no more psychobabble"
http://www.investinme.org/Article-352 The Role of Viruses in...
"I had dealth with my dysfunctional childhood, I had moved on I had been successful happy, contented even after my 2 brothers both died one after the other [...], I endured all the psychobabble under the sun!!!"
https://www.thecandidadiet.com/candida-stories-10/
@asker
Please note the use of Psycho + [standard German word] instead of Psycho + [Greek ending]. This is important, IMO, because we're at a much more colloquial level.
Besides, it's a "comment on social media." I'm not sure about the last time that I heard someone speaking in, say, proper or formal English on Twitter.
There's also the matter of non-capitalization and the double question marks. You don't have to keep those things--but I wouldn't clean it up too much either.
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http://www.ht-mb.de/forum/showthread.php?1038954-Depression-...
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