Poll Ptsd And Other Disorders?

[Iyllsa]

I am curious to see how many out there have other disorders or symptoms. I have been diagnosed with OCD and experience psychosis here and there.

I do have other diagnoses but I feel those "makes sense" if that makes sense. (Social Anxiety and Panic Disorder.)

 

[Ronin]

D.I.D.

& I honestly don't care at this point, because if I'm addressing trauma & PTSD, I have a chance of putting everything else together, if I'm not, my life explodes.

 

[Iyllsa]

D.I.D.

& I honestly don't care at this point, because if I'm addressing trauma & PTSD, I have a chance of...

Ahh I forgot to add that. I don't have DID but I do dissociate quite often.

 

[Ronin]

... I forgot to add ADHD :D

Ahem. Which is kind of topical, but yeah. Forgetfulness of the big and not so big things ahoy.

 

[CJGilbert]

I was originally diagnosed with depression, actually before the trauma, and then we seemed to conquer that but I ended up with a Generalized Anxiety Disorder diagnosis. It took about a year and a half of regular doctor visits to see that there was a reason for the anxiety and that I needed more specialized treatment. I have OCD, Anxiety, depression and PTSD. But I tend to think that PTSD for me, covers all of those disorders.

 

[Deadman]

I think for most of us with PTSD depression is more of a symptom than a separate disorder. I can't imagine anyone with PTSD escaping the depressive aspects for very long.

 

[holdenmonty]

It's really weird for me I was first diagnosed with ptsd and getting treatment, then the military moved us and at the new place my new therapist said that she didn't see me as having ptsd but having anxiety and depression. Now that I'm out and going to the VA for care the person there said that they used the toughest test for people with ptsd and he diagnosed me with ptsd. I just assumed at my last place that them saying I had anxiety and depression was parts of ptsd.

 

[Friday]

I think for most of us with PTSD depression is more of a symptom than a separate disorder. I can't imagine anyone with PTSD escaping the depressive aspects for very long.

Oh! Oh! I did! I did! ....Sigh. Past tense. But the first 5-7 years it was pure unadulterated rage (hot rage, cold rage, no emotions at all). I had to learn to control my temper, before I learned the joys of depression :wtf: No good deed goes unpunished!

So I suppose it depends on whether or not you class 15 some odd years as long, or not. ;)

I'll tell ya though... Not. Long. Enough.

Never would have been too soon.

 

[Friday]

PTSD + ADHD are my constellations.

The rest of my symptoms don't really rate a stand alone disorder, but instead are better explained as facets of those 2.

 

[Iyllsa]

Oh! Oh! I did! I did! ....Sigh. Past tense. But the first 5-7 years it was pure unadulterated rage (hot...

I sort of escape it actually. Had a really bad episode of depression for about 3-4 years.. maybe another year. Don't remember.

Before I used to think I fully got out of depression but now I have more knowledge and am able to properly look back at that time, I realize that I wasn't really happy but I think in a more.. functioning dissociative state, if that makes sense?

I had a nice 1 year break from depression and it was nice. I didn't especially feel happy, I still saw the world as harsh and all that, but I wouldn't think so much of it. Things improved. My appetite increased, although I wouldn't talk to many people I eventually did.

But the thing that makes me think I was actually at some level of dissociation was the fact that I couldn't comprehend what my parents have done. If someone asked me about it I'd become kind of confused and react(mentally and physically) as if it never really happened or it was something I made up in my mind. I couldn't process my past and I'd only be in the present, which I think is what contributed to my feelings of some happiness or feelings of content.

Anyways. I eventually came crashing back down and now I'm here. A different kind of depression. I'm not bothered so much by the harshness of the world or whatever, I still hold roughly the same viewpoints that I had before when I wasn't depressed, but I'm back to feeling empty and all that. I think it could also be because of my age difference? A lot can change within a year. I was a minor when I was feeling depressed first and although I'm not 21/22 yet, I feel like my brain chemistry has changed enough to make me feel depressed in a different way.

 

[Keming]

PTSD, ADHD, bipolar w/ psychosis, Aspergers, avoidant personality disorder, and I voted liberal once, in college.

 

[theshadowoftheliving]

DID as well, which supersedes years of mis-diagnosis as having an eating disorder, anxiety disorder, etc (parts have issues, but the whole do not).