<font color="#000088">I'm frustrated, because I just found out recently that it still says in my chart at the Mental Health Facility I go to that I have Borderline Personality Disorder,when I know that I don't. I don't fit enough of the diagnostic criteria to have the diagnosis,I have some of the criteria,but not enough for the diagnosis.It was a Doctor a long time ago that hated me that diagnosed me with it,just because of the fact that I'm a cutter. That Doctor was eventually fired because of the way he treated his patients,and now he's dead.I don't know how he died, but I'm not shedding any tears over it, he was just plain cruel to some of his patients,and I was one of them. He would throw me in the hospital just for looking at him wrong. Plus he was a crooked Doctor.One of my friends saw him at a Rave selling Benzo's,and when I told him I knew about it,and called him by his first name(that's the name he was going by at the party),he threw me in The State Mental Hospital! I want to get that diagnoses off my chart, because it just reminds me of that cruel Doctor that just tortured me until I moved to California,and got away from him,and my family!</font>

[RiverX]

Yeah, that must be extremely frustrating. From what I can tell, there are idiots and corrupt people everywhere and specially in the therapy world, sounds like he had a disorder himself.
I'm in England, it seems very different here, no one much seems to talk about the disorders here, I'm just disocovering the differences cross the pond. I got diagnosed pd because I self diagnosed and then rang a T in the states and she rediagnosed me with schizoid pd, I had thought it was one of the other ones. Its been a trip!

warm regards,

River.x

<font color="#000088">Yeah, he was really cruel,and it was x-mas time and the whole time they held me at the local hospital to wait for transport to the main State Mental Hospital. He had them keep me held in the seclusion room(which is basically the padded room),but this room was just a cell with a bed,until they transferred me,and gave strict orders that I was to talk to nobody, not even the staff,and no visitors,or phone calls,nothing. Over the whole week through x-mas! Once I got to the State Mental Hospital,I told them why I was sent that time,and within 30 days,I was out. The first person to get in and out of there in 30 days. Because legally if you have not shown that you are a threat to yourself,or anyone else for a 30 day period,they have to release you by law. I did it,and was released, because I did nothing wrong to be sent there in the first place, I wasn't there for being a danger. He was trying to shut me up, because of what I knew about him. He was the crazy one! Very corrupt! </font>

[RiverX]

Yes. Its worrying that that corrupt stuff goes on.
What do you feel you need to do about this? Is there anything? How do you feel now?
It seems you handled the situation well, making sure you got out.
River.x

<font color="#000088">That was way back in the mid 90's,and once I got out,I moved to California.I had to get away from that PDoc,and my family.I only came back on occasion to visit my Dad,and little brother.Until my Dad was dying and needed someone to care for him,or he would be thrown in a nursing home by my older brothers that really don't care too much about anything but money.So I came back to Utah in the late part of 2004 and cared for my Dad for most of the remainder of his life,so he wouldn't have to go to a nursing home,until it was really necessary.Even at that point,he wasn't put in a cheap nursing home,he went to a nice retirement home.Then he passed away in October of 2005,it was probably one of the worse days of my life.So PLEASE in the future,don't mock,or make anytype of disrespecting comments towards my Dads quote's,he taught me those things when I was growing up.And he was the only one that loved me,other than my little brothers!My Mother was very abusive and an evil person,I was very happy when he finally divorced her.So I have great Love and Respect for my Dad's memory! I plan to go back to California as soon as I can afford it,or figure out how to transfer my section 8 housing!Also my lease would need to be up,I won't screw over my landlords and leave them hanging.
But my caseworker said that I could have my new PDoc take the Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis off my chart,since I don't have it.I do have an OCPD,but not BPD!
J</font>

[Islander]

Hey Justice -

I am so sorry that you have gone through this. Some of the doctors out there need to get their own doctors for therapy too. I have a diagnosis of Boarderline Personality Disorder (BPD) also. I really thought my doctors were off their rocker when they told me. I have Bipolar, and the two seem to run in the same direction. I can say that yeah it is me. There has to be some way of getting it off your chart. Maybe your current doc. can help you with that.

Islander

<font color="#000088">Yeah I can,I was told that I can get my new PDoc to take it off my chart,and there are some other diagnoses's there that the old doctor put in that he will be taking off as well. Like Major Depression,when my depression is mostly situational, not a chemically induced depression,except that I am Bi-Polar,and the other PDoc didn't realize that,my new one's since that old cruel one did,and diagnosed it.So I have some depression,and some mania,but I've been stable on my meds for years.So I haven't had either,I've been leveled out,unless ofcourse something bad has happened to throw me into a depression for a little while.But then I get through it,and I'm okay!But I have ADD to,it's weird for someone my age,I think? </font>

<font color="#000088">Well I saw my Psychiatrist Yesterday, and he said he could take the Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnosis off my chart, since I don't have it. He told me to have my Therapist send him an e-mail to remind him to remove it, since he was in the process of seeing other patients back to back. He didn't have time to go over it right then, so he said he'd remove the BPD for me! I feel much better about that now that he's taking care of it! Because whenever I'm ever needing to be hospitalized for anything, the staff members treat me differently because of that diagnoses being on my chart, they pretty much judge me over it, like it's a bad thing! Sometimes they can get pretty rude to! They just assume so many things about me, over that simple false diagnoses!
So I'm really glad it's being removed!
Finally! </font>

[lessthansign3]

That's the problem with the way the mental health system is set up these days. It's so easy to plaster an incorrect diagnosis on someone. I think it needs revamping, myself. Like personally, my psychiatrist has diagnosed me as borderline but my therapists don't agree with it because I don't have some of the more classic symptoms even though I have enough symptoms for it to fit me. It fits better than anything else, anyway.

<font color="#000088">I know what you mean. I was diagnosed with it many years ago, by a bad Psychiatrist with a huge chip on his shoulder. He diagnosed me with it just because of the fact that I was engaging in self-harming behavior/cutting! That was it! I didn't fit the other diagnostic criteria, maybe a couple of them, but not enough to technically diagnose me with it. That Doctor knew I would be treated differently at the hospital, with that diagnoses tacked onto my chart, but treated in a bad way! He just did it, because he didn't like me at all, he couldn't stand me!
Luckily, I have a much better PDoc now, and he's a hell of a lot smarter than that mean one to! But the other one died anyway, so I never have to worry about him again! Thank God!</font>

[Fuzzybear]

[gardenergirl]

Good for you for being assertive about taking that off your chart. I'm glad your doc agreed.

gg

<font color="#000088">Thanks! I just told him I didn't agree with it, and told him who gave me the diagnoses, and why, and that I wanted it taken off my chart. So he said it was fine, just have my T e-mail him about it, and he'll take care of it for me!
He has heard many horror stories about this old Doctor that originally diagnosed me with it in the first place, so I think he understood more, knowing what Doctor did the diagnoses in the first place! That Doctor had actually been fired from my mental health facility for his cruelty in treating his patients! I heard there were just way too many complaints about him, by both patients, and his co-workers!</font>