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Oct 11, 2016, 02:45 AM
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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
Most people are treatable. I think being heard is one of the many requirements for a good outcome.
I was diagnosed with personality disorder, when I was 16 back in the 1990s. After that I was assumed to be a wretched individual and a master manipulator who was a carrier of the plague. Apparently I had a history of abuse that was committed by my Indigenous father. I was also considered untreatable. Almost all therapists and psychiatrists wanted nothing to do with me after that. Eventually I gave up on them, and quit taking all the medication I was on. It was either continue with them and die or live. Note that 'black and white thinking' can be very helpful.
All those diagnoses were troubling. I never believed them and the history of abuse I apparently had. After I quit psychiatry I discovered most of my symptoms were caused by the pills, because they started shortly after I began SSRI treatment and went away when I stopped.
I went to psychiatry for help with depression and left four years later nearly broken. When I entered the system, I was going through a very difficult time at school. I was bullied, struggling with unidentified learning challenges and undiagnosed ASD. What I really needed was a thorough assessment, school accommodations and some decent psychotherapy, not pills and an admission to an adolescent psychiatric unit. I also really needed to be heard, not judged prematurely, and respected.
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Are you also bipolar?
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