The only reason, I am posting this is because what is really PTDS? If they knew exactly what it is by now, they would have given a magic pill for it.
Well, that's a very distorted view of it. There is a lot that is known, and a lot that is still unknown. For example, there's a chemical that has been developed that seems to help fear extinction. It's been used in some human trials, to help people with certain kinds of phobias. The research will undoubtedly end up relating to PTSD.
In most sciences, things do not go from "we understand nothing" to "here's a magic pill!" in the blink of an eye. So, to make the argument you are making is pretty pointless.
On this site, there are many members, many experiences, many points of view. It is part of our mission to facilitate the sharing of information, experiences, and ideas.
There are reasons why it can be good for someone to know their diagnosis - even if that diagnosis is flawed.
People are not in boxes. We are more like water and can be very malleable creatures.
Yes. And science - hard science - is purposefully more rigid. There are less problems with the actual science out there, than there are with the various
interpreters of that knowledge. Research can be 'spun' many different ways. Watch out for the spin, be open to the likelihood of change,
keep up with the facts. So, when a doctor tells you that they can't diagnose you with CPTSD because it doesn't formally exist yet - you can still engage them in a conversation about when it will be formally recognized, what the current research is, what other co-morbid diagnoses you might carry instead.
unfortunately many people are not diagnosed on timely manner why is that?
I'm not sure in what context you ask this question. Many people...where? How do you define timely manner?
The real reason is likely to do with: mental health diagnoses largely depend on self-reporting, still. This makes them more inexact than anyone would like. And self-reporting is easily contaminated by pop-culture bullshit. It's a bad cycle. But I don't think the way to break the cycle is to have less information - it's to have more.
Never mind I know I tried to tell her about the sex stuff when I was a kid? Everyone just brushed past that like it was nothing, the main reason being I could barely mention it. But it was trauma and it was written all over me and anyone should have seen it. They didn't.
This sucks.
I wish there were far far fewer clinicians, so long as the ones we all were left with were more capable, more talented. More curious.
