[greenfeather]

Hello.
Unfortunately I'm no longer using this forum because I can't share personal information anymore.
But truthfully after reading my previous posts I have to write this.

During a period in which I was severely impaired by anxietydepression, drug use and stressful life events, I went to several therapists and also pdocs. I've been diagnosed with cyclothymia, BPD and ADHD-PI by different professionals.


Recently I resumed therapy and visited another psychiatrist. It turns out I have never had those disorders. The symptoms were caused by the things I wrote before and they were tentatively interpreted as symptoms of a mood/personality/attention disorder.

I don't know what would have happened if I had started to take medication for those disorders when in reality I didn't have them. Thankfully I never did because it always seemed strange to me that professionals couldn't agree upon which disorder I had. At the same time, I wonder if other people have gone through a similar situation.

I deeply thank all the people who helped me back when I used to post on here. <3

This post isn't against therapists or psychiatrist. It's only against misdiagnosing which unfortunately sometimes does happen.

Hugs for you, greenfeather

i hope one day you feel able to post here again

[eskielover]

From personal experience, the symptoms I had during thev13 years that were so bad in my life were totally accurate (major depression & anxiety) it was at the time, bad enough to cause me to end up on disability. At the time, none of the mental health people (pdocs & T's) could put their finger on why I was so bad. 13 years later I left that bad situation completely (2100 miles away). That was when the situational cause of my mental health condition became clear cause I started to get better as soon as I left & with awesome therapy I learned the skills I didn't have so that I could not allow situations to effect me in the way it had (& the recovery from the PTSD came easier also)

For me, the diagnosis was accurate at the time.....but it was not a diagnosis that had to be stuck on me when I did recover after leaving the situation.

[InkyTinks]

I was dx with a progressive neurological condition I didn't have as they looked for a single reason for multiple symptoms.


I spent a few years believing I was going to end up unable to do anything.


Quite by chance I read about neuroplasticity of the brain and a guy who taught himself to walk again by going back to basics and learning to crawl first.



This triggered out 'little's who progressed onto walking but the adult self still could barely take steps without crutches particuarly in front of others.



Eventually I worked out from online research that some of it was connected to autism and childhood 'medical trauma' and dissociation with some alter states being disconnected from some parts of the brain. It explained a lot for me.



I still have mobility issues as unfortunately I did end up inheriting arthritis even though the dx back in my 30's was wrong but spent years in a wheelchair when I didn't need to be