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Old Dec 26, 2015, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by yagr View Post
My treatment providers have dismissed any dissociative issues so, guess there is no treatment forthcoming.

I do thank you for some very informative additions to this thread.
Im sorry that happened to you ...

when reading your past posts they say you have been prescribed anti psychotics....for some people this is the treatment for their dissociative problems.

you posted you are a recovering addict....um being a bit blunt here but drugs and alcohol can cause a person to have life long dissociative problems which is why one of the dissociative disorders diagnostics state the problem can not be because a person has used drugs or alcohol. the fact that you have a history of drugs or alcohol addiction may be why they had to disregard a dissociative diagnosis.

you have a history of combat PTSD... this has its own dissociative disorder problems built right in the diagnostic criteria (which again means a treatment provider would have to disregard diagnosing a dissociative disorder if the problems are better explained by the PTSD problems\diagnostics)

you are a practicing buddhist. the diagnostic criteria for dissociative disorders states the problems can not be because of religious practices...some buddhist practices may cause some people dissociative like problems (so again this may be why your treatment providers had to disregard diagnosing a dissociative disorder in you)

you have also posted you have social anxiety.. this can also cause a person to have dissociative like problems..so again your treatment providers had to look at what was causing your dissociative problems (when where how...) and decide if the problem was better explained by other mental problems than dissociative disorders.

my point is you have so much involved here and what you have posted everything can be explained by many different things. so Im not surprised your treatment providers have had to disregard the dissociative disorders for what they have actually diagnosed you as.

that said heres a thought... treatment isnt only about what treatment providers provide and the treatments for dissociative problems are the same treatments that can be gotten through treatment for other mental disorders.

my suggestion is follow the treatment plans they have you on, take the medications they have prescribed. you may be surprised how even what they are doing with you for your problems they are working on with you actually works for your dissociative problems too.

and if you still dont agree with their diagnosis you can request a psychiatric evaluation for diagnostic purposes.

Last edited by FooZe; Dec 28, 2015 at 01:24 AM. Reason: administrative edit to bring within guidelines