Does anyone else have this? When I first started on my mental health recovery journey after my divorce the first verbal dx I got was depression with agitation or dysthymia . The therapist said I probably had that half my life. I remember when I ran away at 15 to a youth shelter and was and they sent me to a . My mother accused me of making it up for attention and life went on. I never got treated for it. I got some therapy for an "adolescent identity disorder" or something like that and that was it.
The person who dx the dysthymia was not a psych doc and he did not send me to a psych doc as he did not think I needed meds. A year or two later a friend sent me to a p doc who dx me with c PTSD and prescribed a mood stabilizer for the day and an antipsychotic to help me sleep at night when I needed it and that's been my regime ever since. The t who treated my c PTSD said the mood stabilizer was probably stabilizing my brain chemistry since my early trauma changed my brain and said probably best to leave it alone. He also had me do Dbt and I ended up doing 4 rounds. Today I have the skills to regulate my emotions but I still don't like feeling anger. It's so frustrating .

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