When I put myself in the Charter Hospital in Plano, Tx. back in 1994 it was so I could have contact with other people with this diagnosis. It cost me about $10,000.00 out of pocket.

The Dr. (psychiatrist) who finally got me admitted tried to diagnose me as clinically depressed within 15 minutes of meeting me. Would you call that a competent diagnosis? ( I had been told that Dr. Ross was setting up a pilot program for treating dissociative disorders at this Charter. I mistakenly thought he would be involved in some of the group therapies.) He and his two PHD clinical psychologists barely ever talked with me. They only did a few interviews. I had more communications with the bachelor degreed social workers or therapists that ran the group therapy programs. But it was the contact with the patients who had a positive diagnosis that helped me the most.

When I tell mental health professionals that I have a dissociative diagnosis, I do not expect them to immediately give me that diagnosis. It should have given them a focal point for treatment! I have learned that I have read more books on dissociative disorders than most psychologists and psychiatrists! I know that most of the mental health professionals that I paid never have read one book about it.

I am 61 years old with two bachelor degrees in engineering. I am also an honorably discharge veteran. How many PHDs can you get out of 61 years? Lets see 8 into 61??? We will just say five PHDs. I have five PHDs of being a human and being me. Just like religious bureaucrats, mental health professionals hate it when anyone questions their authority. The religious bureaucrats are trying to cover up knowledge about the Bible and the mental health professionals are trying to cover up incompetence.

In the field of psycho-therapy the business plan of most psychologists is to have multiple, maybe four max, patients a day for five days a week. At $100.00 per hour that equates to $2000.00 per week. I do not have a problem with that as long as the psychologists do not put the patients mental health at risk or their financial health at risk.