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Originally Posted by divine1966
Well it’s important to acknowledge that therapists cannot diagnose (beyond doing it for insurance purposes).
It’s true that it’s wrong to pigeon hole people and it’s much better to treat people holistically as the whole person. But when it comes to medication if people are prescribed meds especially highly addictive ones in the absence of clinical diagnosis or because they think they have something and doctor complies, it’s extremely dangerous route to take.
I agree it’s not all clear cut but it’s dangerous taking meds in absence of diagnosis. Like if my stomach hurts it might be because I eat crappy food so it’s important to actually diagnose what’s the issue here. Maybe I won’t even need meds if I stop eating crap. I’d expect to have some resemblance of diagnosis before piling on meds, most people with physical illness wouldn’t pile on meds because they have pain in the right side etc they’d want to know what is going on first.. Yet many people feel differently about mental illness or assumed or suspected mental illness.
Becoming dependent on meds is necessary for many but it’s not as clear cut for everyone who takes meds.
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I agree, it seems all therapists now want to say my diagnosis is anxiety. The words depression and trauma are used by them. They say there is resistance to diagnose anything more specific and that the DSM will change soon. Will they simply call everything anxiety now?
I’ve been seeking relationship and emotional help (for how it affects me) for 20+ years now. In the past one psychiatrist wrote in her notes and did not tell me until I went back to her 7 years later that I was EDD. Another spoke to me once and yelled at me that I have MDD.
So that’s all I’ve been told and doctors have just thrown darts at a board of ‘here, try this’ with meds. I have posed the question with all of them as to if I am the one with a disorder which is why I have a few interpersonal relationships that went very bad, or are they such A holes? The only one who said ‘You just aren’t happy with your husband and you should divorce him’, that’s the same one who diagnosed me EDD behind my back and did not tell me...until I went back 7 years later!
The others never set this question straight. When they hear anything about strained interpersonal relationships right away they think it’s me who is the common denominator (it is), and they must label me Borderline traits... which I accept it could be and that I am the problem, if that is true...but if i give examples of the behaviors of those I have interpersonal issues with—-they did act in an unloving to hateful way toward me, which means they don’t much care for me, which makes my emotions tank low and I get very sad and cry because these are the few people who are closest to me and it really hurts.
