why would a pdoc do this?

At first I saw his locum. she was nice and thought I had bipolar. then she left so I had to see him. ive only seen him twice for ten mins at each appointment. after my last app he sent a letter to my gp saying that I he thinks I have bpd. i have no elements of it, but it wasn't that so much that upset me, it was far more that his letter just contained a lot of stuff i had never said, and it to some extent feels like he's made stuff up to make it seem like bpd.

my gp said that some patients have trouble expressing themselves so the pdoc might interpret what you've said as meaning something else, so maybe this is what happened, but im not so sure

i told pdoc that i went to a meeting, where a man claimed to have fallen in love with me at first site. i found this strange and so declined his offer of a date. pdoc wrote "she has difficultly with relationships. she attended a meeting where she flirted innapropriately with several men"

how n earth did he get that from what i said?

i also told pdoc that i had shoplifted a couple of times over a two week period, but that i knew it was wrong and so was easily able to stop. i suggested that maybe this was due to a bipolar high? pdoc then wrote "she has difficulty controlling her impulses and has an addiction to shoplifting, and does so almost every day"

i didn't say this!!!

im not angry at all, i don't have any abandonment issues, ive told pdoc before that i have friends i go out with and am becoming a lot more social since getting help for my anxiety, and that im starting to enjoy life again. i told him i cope equally well alone or in a group and that i enjoy being alone aswell. ive never had any kind of volatile relationship and ive never had a one night stand. i just don't seem to have any of what you need to have to be bpd. i just don't understand why he has done this and said these things, but he wont see me again til a time of his choosing which he said is the end of November.

i thought about seeing a different pdoc who i would have to pay to see, altho i feel as tho my problem was probably just anxiety that got worse cos nobody would help me at first. sometimes i wonder if pdoc wanted to create some dramatic problem to ensure he still got patients?

i just don't really know what to do

Do you know what your anxiety is about? I would just work on that, ignore pdoc and/or make sure, if you want to try meds that they are for anxiety and not something else? Do you have a therapist you talk with? What do you want to do about your difficulties? You can probably do that without having to deal with this particular psychiatrist again, have your GP help you?

It sounds like you are learning and coping well with your anxiety, can you just continue working on it that way?

Thanks Perna yes i am taking propranolol and getting on so well with it.
i don't have a therapist right now but would like to.
thanks for your advice. all very helpful

The examples you gave don't sound like simple misinterpretations. Is there a language barrier?
Like Perna said more or less... if what happened doesn't affect your treatment then in a practical sense it doesn't make any difference. If it did or does affect treatment in the future then it obviously is something you need to correct.

Is your pdoc, in communication with your group therapist? And also with your primary? Are these things, that have been mentioned to anyone else, in the medical community? Could they be a part of your medical file?

i don't have a primary care nurse, bcos at my first appointment i was asked whether i go out, and bcos i go out, they decided i wasn't bad enough to need a nurse

he is Spanish so theres a possibility that he doesn't fully understand some of what i have said

at first i saw his locum instead of him, and i assumed he would have read the notes she made, but actually i don't think he has, so maybe he doesn't understand some things. anyway ive lost confidence with him now and would rather see someone else, as he has jumped to conclusions before, plus he often interprets things rather than asking me out straight and ive had to speak to him before about this.

I don't have a primary nurse either. I just know that my neurologist, general practitioner(primary care doctor), my LISW therapist, and even OBGYN, are all cleared to talk with one another, including with my pdoc, about my health. I signed the paperwork, that allows them all access to my health care.

Perhaps, where English, isn't his primary language, there is room for miscommunication, but who knows.

Sorry you've been so greatly misunderstood and all of this is written down in your medical files, now.

Would you be receiving the same treatment, with or without the BPD diagnosis? Which DX were you expecting to receive, regardless of the notes?

I wonder what the notes in my own files, would say, at this rate. I know that my DX's are listed on my patient summary report, each and every time that I book another appointment, after my appointment finishes. hmmmm...