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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster
I'm irritated with therapists right now, they've all tried to diagnose me with some personality disorder or another. I don't have any of them. My pdoc has officially ruled out any sort of PD with me. I'm just really annoyed. It's like thanks for wasting my life with pointless labels that don't really mean anything to me except mythical **** to sort through. I hate therapy, it always seems to make things more complicated for me and not easier or better. My current therapist isn't trying to label me with anything because she's aware I have sz and all that, but I'm just feeling so jaded about the whole thing and I'm wondering what the point of it all is.
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I'm sorry that's been your past experience with therapists Atypical
I'm currently (trying to at any rate!) read Bentall's Madness Explained - I've only just started but he talks about the history of the psych classification system and the problems they had coming up with it. I know the world works with labels, and it helped us find each other so it has its positives, but I'm dubious about how accurate we can be classifying MI. I'm glad that your current therapist isn't worrying about labels and is getting on with work. Do you not find having a safe space to talk about anything you want helpful? It's shocking here cos many people with sz & sza labels don't get therapy because 'it's all biological' - even if it was, which I wonder about, people still need support in dealing with it
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Originally Posted by cybermember
I'm scared. Not because I have a pituitary tumor but because I have to come off my AP. F**k being brave. I'm terrified. I remember what happened last time. It didn't end too well.
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Cyber
I hope that it goes ok this time and that you find something else that helps. Not everyone requires APs to recover, like I remember hearing John Nash didn't take meds but recovered, but I understand how scary it must be to have to go without them when they've helped you for so long. Mine weren't especially effective, but it was still scary to completely come off APs and it still worries me that things might go bad, but there's other things you can do to help yourself too e.g. do you have a therapist? You always have us, but do you have IRL support too? All the best
I'm supposed to be helping my Mum by wrapping presents but I get so bored with it. I've only done 4 so far :/ Better get back to it! :/
*Willow*