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Default Jul 02, 2021 at 08:07 AM
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So here I am writing again, I'm still pretty pissed about the mental health system 8 years or longer in the system and they still won't treat me..I wanted counselling I got out of Rockingham because IMO it was crap honestly. In the end I knew my diagnose and my feelings better than them. They diagnosed me with all this word salad Borderline personality, ADHD, Avoidant personality disorder, depression, OCD. Yada-yada but honestly what diagnosis really explains my condition and my day to day life is Depersonalization disorder. Literally it's how I behave daily constantly dissociated from myself and my own surroundings... I honestly so many stupid doctors all this year's and I had to pay because they couldn't even diagnose we with the obvious. Enraged?!! You bet ya I suffered thought hell with serotonin syndrome and anxiety exaggerated because I NEVER even needed to be on dexy I NEVER had ADHD. I literally needed a neurologist to tell me the obvious. That it was PTSD. The only thing that came good from this mind****** is that I had a GP that cared and refused to give up on me he was the one who got me counselling he was the one who got me PTSD treatment, I recovered from the flashbacks etc but I could never recover from the dissociation I feel daily. So yeah when I get to my new Psychiatrist I'm gonna tell him how I literally behave daily and people have to constantly pick up after me because I'm not even aware enough of my surroundings, to discover I forgot to put the plates away and clean after myself. There you go I did what the so called professionals did I "diagnosed" myself. Go ahead and I bet you when I tell them what I think they have they say you "google to much" the usual gaslighting that I experienced from this *****hole system in Rockingham. I betting that fremantle is better than that, I'm hoping and praying they are and they finally take me seriously and treat me.

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I'm sorry about this. Things are not ''great'' MH wise in the forest I live either. Wrong diagnoses are the ''normal'' in some areas and they cover their a@@@@ with more garbage. I offer kudos for ''self diagnosing'', sometimes we can be more accurate than ''professionals'' who fail to be adequate listeners.

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Default Jul 02, 2021 at 01:46 PM
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Scary, how common it is to wrongly diagnose a patient. Because it's so unreliable I've stopped caring much about what my diagnosis is...I just want the proper medication and therapy for whatever it is I'm dealing with.

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In this area the professionals want us to be ''independent in our mental health''... a polite way of putting it I guess. I am allergic to the meds. Yay me I have not spoken to them for a long time. The last contact I had was a short text by a GP. The GP's here do not have time to listen, it's sad. I am ''avoidant'' so it's not hard for them to ignore me, its safer for me that way though. I feel much more ''unwell'' after having any contact with them. I think they intentionally misunderstand, and they lie like a rug. Sorry about the rant

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Sorry to hear Fuzzy bear, I also have bad luck with medication too I tired the likes of at least 20 antidepressants lots of them either didn't work or gave me mood swings. I'm on Pristiq now but that's not perfect either. It has helped massively with my antidepressant but gives me constipation and low libido. I hope they give you alternative treatment because not everyone can tolerate synthetic drugs. Have you tried St John warts I heard it's good for depression
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So Sorry for what you've been and are still going through! Please Do not give up! i agree with the other wise and wonderful posters that the important thing is that the meds are Helpful i think. Of course a diagnosis is also Helpful in deciding which meds to take. i Hope your new psychiatrist will be able to Help and that you will be able to get the meds and therapy you need. It can be hard but i think you can do this. Please do keep us updated if you can and want to. Stay Safe. Hugs. Love. Sending many Safe, warm hugs to BOTH you, @black-roses, your Family, your Friends and ALL of your Loved Ones! Keep fighting and keep rocking NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, Ok?!
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Default Jul 03, 2021 at 09:56 AM
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I had a similar experience and it was traumatic.

It took years to figure out what was going on with me. I'm the one that pieced it all together with the help of Google. I discussed my findings with people that I knew well, then approached a psychiatrist about a formal diagnosis. The support of family and friends made a huge difference. Without it I would have never been able to reach out.

A correct diagnosis can really make a big difference.

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I will let you know what happens when I see them at the end of this month. It's so nice to hear that people care and want to know if I'm okay thank you. I feel loved ❤️
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I know some people don’t care about labels but I actually did need one of my diagnosis for my insurance company to pay for things and for doctors and therapists to take me seriously. It sucks if people can’t get the diagnosis they know they have. I had a toxic therapist in 2011 who just called me confused.

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This is exactly my problem too. I’ve been labeled things like BPD, ADHD, OCD, Ilness anxiety, GAD, MDD. It seems like no one understands when I tell them this is all trauma based. If I tell professionals my anhedonia exists to protect me from flashbacks they just say I’m a hypochondriac. They don’t listen.
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Thank you for sharing. Reading these types of posts always helps to remind me that the system needs a reset.


I am a few years shy of 20 years without a change in my quality of life since becoming unwell. I have had several wrong diagnoses that were serious, and most caused direct harm to me, in the form of permanent bodily damage induced by psych meds, and horrific stress responses conditioned into me whenever I interact with mental health.

Recently, I got an appointment for a 4 hour session with a psychologist that took months to get. So the day came, and it turns out they could not provide me ANY services. I expected a structured interview, observation, exploration of symptoms and past diagnoses, an opinion or interpretation of my current problems and suggestions on how to improve, and a clinical assessment to determine if I meet the criteria for any new disorder(s).

They gave me a packet where you read statements and answer with how much you agree or disagree. I told them right away that most of the questions are not relevant to me, and that for only a small amount of the questions I could give an accurate answer. I told them I do not have the life experience. They immediately replied "you are way past 18, you have the life experience". I am younger than 30. The psychologist said they needed every answer filled out. I told them it would be mostly random if I did that. They said it was not random. They were arrogant, narcissistic, and inappropriate (implying they're omnipotent and logical fallacies don't matter to them). I am aware of the statistical nature of these tests, where the answers don't matter, and they look to see if you are like the other people that answered the same test in a very similar way. I do not object to this, but you cannot get usable data when the test subject answers most of the test randomly/inaccurately, and could take the same test and fill out almost all the answers differently. It can't be done. I explained that this doesn't make sense, and it's a waste of time. They insisted I just needed to trust them and do it anyways, because the test was their "tool" and they cannot do much of anything without it. They failed to explain why any of it made sense, or how it would not be a waste of time. I listened to my gut and ended the appointment. They kept repeating, "you can contest the results", but they could not provide any compelling evidence that it would not be a waste of time.


I have had opinions and diagnoses made/changed/removed just by talking to mental health workers without ever resorting to this asinine process. This psychologist was so rigid, they could not work around there being no questionnaire, or produce one that had applicable questions for me (I looked through several).

I have had primary care doctors that I needed to immediately change due to incompatibility, and this person was the poster child for that unpleasant phenomenon. I knew in under 5 minutes. They were late for the appointment, then disappeared for a significant fraction of the appointment to check my records, which they should have done before meeting with me. I have had far worse experiences with others, though. This is just the newest mishap.


I had important issues needing to be addressed, and now I have to rethink how all of that is going to be done. I am pretty close to regarding myself as untreatable at this point, and I'll just focus entirely on physical health problems. I have always done all the work with my mental health, and this will be no different.
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