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Originally Posted by Fresia
I started with a new GP in March for a physical and we discussed my MH diagnosis at that time just so he would know. I also signed up at that time for their new ability to access your medical records online, schedule appointments, get prescriptions refills, etc program. I just accessed it. He changed my diagnosis, accidentally or on purpose, I don't know but it is not accurate. I am concerned because my disability benefits are based on the other diagnosis, so it is not just a matter of being picky, and actually after years of failed dx and treatments, the one my pdoc and T have given me actually fits. Otherwise I could care less about the diagnosis.
How would you approach going about getting this changed?
Thanks in advance for you input!!  |
just a little information.... if you have your disability benefits here in america (ie SSI,or SSDI) a change in diagnosis will not affect your disability payments if the new diagnosis is whats keeping you from working/ affects your life.
I know many people who got their disability because they had one diagnosis and after their diagnosis was changed still get disability...
you see here in america we have a new standard of diagnosing mental disorders with the publication of the new DSM 5 (the diagnostic manual treatment providers here in america go by in diagnosing mental disorders now) because of the new standards many peoples diagnosis's had to change because with the new diagnostic's they either met the new criteria for something they did not meet in the past or they no longer meet the diagnostic criteria due to new standards.
for example someone in the past may have fit the diagnosis for DID but now because the criteria says to consider other better fitting diagnosis their DID diagnosis may get changed to PTSD (because PTSD now carries dissociative symptoms in that diagnosis)or osdd (other specified Dissociative disorder) because they dont lose time or as severe memory problems when they switch into their alters.
the new diagnostics dont mean a person is any more less disabled then before, it just means we have a new standard for diagnosing mental disorders now.
my suggestion is talk with your treatment providers. it may be that you no longer fit the old diagnosis due to the DSM 5 changes. and that like the DSM 5 criteria states this new diagnosis better fits, and that you are not any more or less disabled then you were before the new diagnosis was placed in the files....
if you still do not agree with the new diagnosis after talking with your treatment providers you can request a referral for the longer more thorough diagnostic process called a psychiatric evaluation. thats where you go through a whole battery of physical mental and academic testing that can diagnose what your actual /accurate diagnosis's are according to the new standards.