Hello and welcome. I'm relatively new here myself.

How frustrating to not have any treatments available in your county. What is the point of studying and researching if the end result isn't to help people?

Your worry that you may be misdiagnosed isn't necessarily a bad thing because it happens all the time. Also, I've known some hypochondriacs and this always seems to go along with something much more complex, so your doctor may not be seeing the complete picture.

I was misdiagnosed and the treatment I received from this made me worse. Because of this, I'm going without a therapist right now, although I plan to find a new one eventually. I just want to be sure I learn how to find one that really knows what they are doing when it comes to my real problems.

In the meantime, I have discovered Pysch Central and can tell you that so far I'm finding it very helpful. If you spend time here reading posts and participating in discussions, going to support chats, you will get much out of your time here.

I suggest you get in touch with DocJohn, who owns this website as he may have some suggestions about ways you can get treatment. For one thing, I know that there are therapists who will treat people using Skype. He may be able to connect you with someone who does this, or tell you how you can find someone who does.

I understand DocJohn is hard to get a hold of, but he holds a general question-and-answer support chat every two weeks, on Tuesdays. You could certainly talk to him there. Check the Calendar for chat information. (If you have programmed your correct time zone into your profile, when you check the Calendar for information on the chat time, the time listed will be correct for your zone.)

It's great that you are so stubborn and refuse to give up. I'm pretty nonfunctional from my illness, but also believe things can get better. Our illnesses are in our mind, so it's important we have the mindset that we can heal. The foundation of recovery is being able to see that you can recover.

--Ceara1010