Sufferer Diagnosed 2 days ago. It would be a comfort if anyone is willing to share their diagnosis stories?

[Freida]

I went to therapy because I had developed fibromyaglia and was looking for some coping skills. She pegged me with ptsd on our 4th visit. I yelled at her that she had no idea what she was talking about and I'd never hidden under a table in my life!

Took her a year to get the first story out of me (I had a very adventurous military career) and then the bubbles started popping with memories of the rest of them. It's been a tough road but my nightmares are down, I feel a bit more centered and I have a ton of coping skills I didn't have before - so .... there's that.

Welcome!

 

[Deleted member 47632]

Hello everyone,

I was diagnosed with PTSD two days ago. Fortunately, I see a therapist regularly and have been going in for general depression and anxiety symptoms. After over a year of bouncing between different medication, talk therapies, and other things, I had a breakthrough a few months ago, which led to my diagnosis. I am nowhere near ready to talk about my trauma - the diagnosis alone is enough to keep my mind occupied. I've been looking for a name to the horror I've been going through the past year and a half... now that I finally have it I'm not sure what to do with it, which is how I ended up here.

If anyone is willing to share their stories with receiving their diagnoses, please leave them below. It would be a great comfort.

Thank you!

i got ptsd and bpd from childhood, teen and adult years ongoing stuff i ended up an alcoholic and addict, homeless, arressted, so many evils

 

[LilyRose]

After an incident at work i was left with a tbi. I had tbi symptoms, and some of them fit ptsd too. I was ignoring the shit out of my symptoms but the people around me at work were like yeah you're not ok. So i was send to docs and stuff trying to fix my tbi. A lot of testing involved but me still ignoring symptoms. I was fine.
3yrs later i was getting worse without admitting it and sent for more tests. They said i had to try emdr... me, bulshit that's for ptsd, i don't have that. No trauma here. They wanted me to go to a specific treatment for ptsd and i was not having it. Yelled at the company doc that is was bullshit and they needed to listen to me for once. I was fine and wanted to go back to work. Doc said i was getting more aggressive everytime he saw me and that he now knew i had ptsd as well... well i got more angry and upset with that. He then made me get tested, i was going to prove them wrong, and then they said i definately had ptsd... after those words i zoned out. Game over.

 

[Swift]

Hi and welcome :)

Honestly I was so ill when I was diagnosed with PTSD that it was a relief, I thought I had schizophrenia or something else far more nasty. PTSD is really, really treatable, it's a tough road but it's worth it.
I've had a recent diagnosis of DID (Dissociative identity disorder) and that's really thrown me for a loop now that I'm aware enough to realise it....

I'm kinda going through the stages of grief, a bit. Denial and anger, I think I'll hit bargaining shortly and then acceptance.

Glad to have you here.

 

[MrMoonlight]

If anyone is willing to share their stories with receiving their diagnoses, please leave them below. It would be a great comfort.

I isolated myself for two decades after a more recent trauma ignited the first. During that time I only sought help from my family doctor for an antidepressant, Xanax, Adderall (to me the devil), Ambien and the list goes on. After all that time, I was at my end and decided to quit all meds to find my natural baseline. I had to get a proper assessment with a psychiatrist. I came to this site and was encouraged to do these things.

I found a very experienced Psychiatrist maybe fifteen months ago and had the assessment. Was Dx w/ PTSD, Major Depression, and a couple anxiety disorders.

I started with a new antidepressant and anxiety med. Gabapentin for me has been and is a lifesaver. These meds fit me perfectly, something I never had prior to Psychiatrist assessment. Having him in control for the most part of my medications have been life-changing.

I'm not bowing at the feet of medications but I don't get here from there without. My single-minded focus, therapist and recent trauma based IOP have been invaluable, I don't get here from there without.

 

[Rani G2]

If anyone is willing to share their stories with receiving their diagnoses, please leave them below. It would be a great comfort.

Diagnosed with CPTSD in 2015. Depression/Anxiety with 9-10 yrs. Travelling a lot as a Child and landed in a psychiatric ward some 16 yrs ago. Coming out of an abusive family background and amnesia due to an incident I encountered as a child. Most probably sexual abuse etc. I am no longer experiencing dissociation and feel that Therapy/Yoga/alternative therapies have been very helpful so far.