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Speaking from experience, have you been diagnosed with something and after a period of believing you have it, you started to doubt that you have the diagnosed disability and instead think that you have something else or maybe you were just in some unique circumstance? If so then what was the cause of your doubt?
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Hi @Ironbeard -welcome to MSF My Support Forums. I am not sure I am thinking of the same thing, but I always felt I was different. When I grew up, there were no diagnoses of mental disabilities for people that did well in school. So I lived with the uncertainty of not knowing all my life. I guess we all have some unique aspects that mean we may not fit into some societal norm. I guess that is how we survived as a specie: diversity that allowed adaptability.
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Yes, actually.
I always have known depression was my biggest issue, and PTSD was probably at the root of much of that issue. At one point, however, my pdoc labeled it bipolar 2. I did a lot of reading trying to figure it out. He treated me with meds normally for bipolar (but they honestly didn't do much for me). And then after about a decade of intensive and very effective therapy, I started to heal. I've been a decade now without a need for therapy or medications. I occasionally have a bit of the PTSD symptoms come up, but not to any extreme, and any depression I deal with now is situational, mild, and brief. I am pretty convinced, in retrospect, that PTSD/depression were/are correct diagnoses, but the bipolar 2 wasn't correct at all. What the Pdoc was seeing was recurrent depressive episodes subsequent to the PTSD symptoms I was experiencing. |
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When I was on disability, I was disabled. I couldn't handle the stress that my engineering career was....but in reality I was in a unique circumstance that did cause that disability I had never had before & 13 years later when I walked out on that circumstance in my life & all that had happened, I was finally able to get help & heal because my circumstance I was no in no longer continued to trigger. Today, I am actually healthier at 69 than I ever was before in my life. I can function better & know working skills to help me through difficult situations. Looking back, I can see how disabled I was during those years & I can also see how totally dysfunctional my living circumstances had been all my life prior to that & how I had to fight for everything I wanted to achieve in life. I understand how I became disabled but also understand how NOW I have become more functional than ever before. Life can be complicated & disabilities can be recovered from, obviously depending on the disability (mine was major depression & anxiety). I moved to a small town where I didn't know anyone 15 years ago. My friends now have a hard time believing what all I had gone through except for the remaining legal battles that still exist....but I am now in a mental place where I can more than handle them....I couldn't before which was why I walked away __________________ Leo's favorite place was in the passenger seat of my truck. We went everywhere together like this. Leo my soulmate will live in my heart FOREVER Nov 1, 2002 - Dec 16, 2018 |
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Do you mind saying more on what seemed like hypomania that was actually PTSD? I'm just interested in what you meant
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I had times when I would get very task focused and have sleep problems. The task focus was more about just trying to maintain control. The sleep problems were related to anxiety and depression. I don't see either of those as necessarily indicative of hypomania. I was never manic. Never grandiose. Never engaged in risky behaviors.
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I believe that I was misdiagnose with a mental disability because of my lack of social skills because my mom wouldn't let me socialize with other kids.
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Sometimes I do. Then when I bring up one specfic topic people are like "yeah you for sure have it." Even people who I didn't necessairly trust before.
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