Does everybody get diagnosed anymore?

[Gs172003]

That, or take what is useful out of Twitter, too.

As with every social media also plenty professionals & organizations on the platform / something that can come handy, not just personal notes.

I didn't find a whole lot. Do you know of any?

 

[Justmehere]

What type of resources are you looking for?

 

[Ronin]

Do you know of any?

ISSTD :hilarious: (Have interesting events announcing on their twitter.)

Honestly, just from skimming the tags: trauma, dissociation, anxiety, cptsd
are all quite relevant to healing interests & updated even without much irrelevant materials cluttering the tags.

 

[Gs172003]

What type of resources are you looking for?

More information like what is on this site but not geared towards Vets. It seems like everything I find is very vet specific.

 

[Gs172003]

ISSTD :hilarious: (Have interesting events announcing on their twitter.)

Honestly, just from skimming the tags: trauma, dissociation, anxiety, cptsd
are all quite relevant to healing interests & updated even without much irrelevant materials cluttering the tags.

Thank you

 

[EveHarrington]

More information like what is on this site but not geared towards Vets. It seems like everything I find is very vet specific.

You’re still being incredibly vague.

What are you looking for?

Resources that are trauma specific? Types of therapy? How to find a therapist? Self help techniques? Etc?

People here could point you in the right direction if you were more specific.

 

[Gs172003]

You’re still being incredibly vague.

What are you looking for?

Resources that are trauma specific? Types of therapy? How to find a therapist? Self help techniques? Etc?

People here could point you in the right direction if you were more specific.

Self help mostly. I was going to go back to therapy but my therapist has moved too far for me to see her so I was going to see what I could do on my own.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Google would be a better option. There is also a search feature on here. So you may want to search "grounding" on here for example and you'll get great results. I do silly searches on here when bored and trying to ease back into exposure on the site and the search option on here has always been great.

But, with google, you'll get other forums, blog posts, articles, etc. A lot of better options then just Twitter. Same with Bing. Whichever you use is fine. And you want to narrow the search down to self help for PTSD (and can search those specific words even) rather then just PTSD as with just PTSD you'll get the diagnosis criteria, research done on PTSD, talking about it and stigmas. And since you are talking about non-veteran PTSD you may even want to include that or include "PTSD caused by _____" in all of your searches. So an example is "grounding techniques for PTSD caused by childhood abuse". That will help direct results away from veteran specific stuff.

But the good thing about searching on here rather then google or anywhere else, the word "grounding" (in my example" is all that is needed as PTSD is already assumed. That goes for anything. Help with Flashbacks (during or after) just search "Flashbacks" where in google you'll need to be more specific like "how to reduce flashbacks for PTSD caused by childhood abuse" as example.

I'm an avid researcher so these are some things I do an am pretty darn good at. Researching and google searching and what not.

 

[Gs172003]

Google would be a better option. There is also a search feature on here. So you may want to search "grounding" on here for example and you'll get great results. I do silly searches on here when bored and trying to ease back into exposure on the site and the search option on here has always been great.

But, with google, you'll get other forums, blog posts, articles, etc. A lot of better options then just Twitter. Same with Bing. Whichever you use is fine. And you want to narrow the search down to self help for PTSD (and can search those specific words even) rather then just PTSD as with just PTSD you'll get the diagnosis criteria, research done on PTSD, talking about it and stigmas. And since you are talking about non-veteran PTSD you may even want to include that or include "PTSD caused by _____" in all of your searches. So an example is "grounding techniques for PTSD caused by childhood abuse". That will help direct results away from veteran specific stuff.

But the good thing about searching on here rather then google or anywhere else, the word "grounding" (in my example" is all that is needed as PTSD is already assumed. That goes for anything. Help with Flashbacks (during or after) just search "Flashbacks" where in google you'll need to be more specific like "how to reduce flashbacks for PTSD caused by childhood abuse" as example.

I'm an avid researcher so these are some things I do an am pretty darn good at. Researching and google searching and what not.

Thank you that's very helpful.
I'm not very computer savvy...and I've stayed away from most social media until now. I appreciate your help!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Thank you that's very helpful.
I'm not very computer savvy...and I've stayed away from most social media until now. I appreciate your help!

You are very welcome!

And you get better at researching with practice. Learning what keywords are best comes with practice and seeing what results come up as you go. I just happen to research everything! ;)

 

[siniang]

Believe it or not some people will show symptoms of PTSD and not have PTSD. Acute Stress Disorder is exactly the same except for duration and magnitude. How about substance abuse? Bipolar disorder? The difficulty of differential diagnosis and self-diagnosis are the reasons why many of us have the opinion of it being overdiagnosed.

The ICD says anything must occur in two separate settings. The DSM also specifys that it must not be more readily attributed to another organic disease or better classified as another mental disorder. It also has to be bad enough to impair the individual.

Of course we're not talking about self-diagnosis!

To be over-diagnosed, there needs to be a diagnosis, first. So, for PTSD to be over-diagnosed there are only two possible scenarios: The diagnosing party doesn't know how to do their job. Or the patient is lying about their symptoms.

Both of them are very possible and I'm sure do occur. But to an extend of causing over-diagnosis?

I do know all that you mentioned, about differential diagnoses etc. But I do think it's neither of us's place to doubt the diagnosis of someone else (unless, of course, it's very obvious that the person is self-diagnosing or doesn't meet all the diagnostic criteria). But symptoms can very in extend (one does not have to have ALL symptoms that are listed under the diagnostic criteria) and severity (who are we to judge what impairs another individual? for example, since you specifically mentioned that) and with all the stigma that mental disorders are still facing, I really do think essentially denying someone their diagnosis, "just because" (and particularly while suffering yourself), has not only an aftertaste, it's really harmful in my opinion.

It's just not our place, because it's essentially the opposite of self-diagnosis. But it comes down to what I mentioned in another post, some (affected) people make it seem like some people are "worthier" of a diagnosis than others. NOT saying this is what YOU're saying/implying, but some approaches and comments do feel like that.

And then people wonder why people question their diagnosis, there's even a thread about that on here ....go figure.

 

[shatter eyes]

And then people wonder why people question their diagnosis, there's even a thread about that on here ....go figure

Go figure yup...I still cant figure it out as i certainly do question my diagnosis usually when i have a good day and feel like me old self. Other times i look back at how friendly and open i am talking to strangers or therapist. I understand TBI has overlapping of symptoms which adds another variable if i really do have it or not. Since the crash different psychs at different stages have noted acute PTSs, PTSd without going into depth of assessing me. When i first found this forum i did not feel worthy somehow but as i read more of the threads and polls I felt I have finally found the community that understands me. This gave me the voice to tell people my diagnosis when warranted so I am not needing to pretend normal while being on gaurd about being on guard.

I have brought this up before and my T says PTSd is a spectrum so there are days where i manage symptom activation well and days that i am overtaken by symptoms which is volatile. Last year I finally had an indepth assessment and interview over 3 days. I got tagged with PTSd and MDD. I recently heard that the psych is a presenter and researcher specializing in PTSd and anxiety disorders. I respect the doc and the diagnosis.

I guess if it was not for PTSd i would not be required to attend DBT psych and a trauma counselor weekly. I tell myself go figure....