Misdiagnosed At 12??

[Dvsurvior]

When I was young I was brought home sick from school by my mother who just started going to work. I walked in my house while my mother went back to work and the tv,cd player and vhs was missing and my dog was mased (she was a shepherdX and was very protective) i believe shortly after that I started having mental health issues adhd, bipolar and so on. The more I read about PTSD I'm thinking I was misdiagnosed all those years ago and I'm really not crazy like my family thinks I am not that it matters at this point because that was over 15 years ago but I'm just wondering if anyone has been misdiagnosed with a mental illness when it was actually PTSD ??

 

[joeylittle]

I walked in my house while my mother went back to work and the tv,cd player and vhs was missing and my dog was mased

Can you explain 'mased'?

 

[Dvsurvior]

Can you explain 'mased'?

You know mase ?? If someone is trying to assult you if you have mase you spray them in the eyes and they go temporary blind lol well they did that to my dog

 

[Neverthesame]

@joeylittle pepper spray.

Poor dog,I hope she was alright.

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Friday]

Is misdiagnosis very common? Yes.
Does coming home to a burgled flat meet the criteria for PTSD? No.

 

[joeylittle]

You know mase ??

Gotcha - mace, is the spelling I know. I wasn't sure if you were going for mace or tased (tazed). Both are awful. I'm sorry for your dog, and it must have been very frightening for you.

 

[Dvsurvior]

Is misdiagnosis very common? Yes.
Does coming home to a burgled flat meet the criteria for PTSD? No.[/Q...

Sorry you don't see that a tramatizing experience but for a kid to walk in the house that they lived most of their life and see it's been robbed that's not easy for anyone to deal with

Later in life I dealt with a home invasion which was way more tramitizing

You answer the question I could of been misdiagnosed

 

[Dvsurvior]

Gotcha - mace, is the spelling I know. I wasn't sure if you were going for mace or tased (tazed)....

Lol thanks I thought that was how you spelled it personally I owned tear gas which was 100x worse never owned mace. It was hard for me I was a kid and after that I was diagnosed with other illnesses but never PTSD
I may not of faught in a war but that doesn't mean I can't have PTSD I was diagnosed in 2005 I believe. My dog was fine she never liked to leave my side after that she died in 1996

 

[Dvsurvior]

@joeylittle pepper spray.

Poor dog,I hope she was alright.

Welcome to the fo...

Thank you I've been here for a month now. She was a great dog and recovered fine afterwards

 

[Silver.]

@Friday didn't say that wasn't traumatizing for you, rather that it didn't meet the criteria for ptsd
(but that doesn't mean that another event in your life didn't cause ptsd)
I like this article, as it helps to explain the criteria in terms that are understandable https://www.myptsd.com/threads/ptsd-diagnosis.87466/

Very sorry to hear that your dog went through that, and glad to know she was okay.

 

[Dvsurvior]

@Friday didn't say that wasn't traumatizing for you, rather that it didn't meet the...

I'm actually not sure if anything else happened when I was a kid but I tend to block out events and only remember bits and pieces of it. At 13 everything got worse for me it wasn't because of a bad upbringing my parents are good people and lived in a middle class town that has good schools and no violence

I guess I'm over thinking that's it

 

[Megyn]

I'm actually not sure if anything else happened when I was a kid but I tend to block out events and o...

I'm sorry to hear all that happened to you, but glad to know your dog survived.

I don't think you're over-thinking... it is something that has affected you, something that traumatized you. I think at 12 yrs old, children pretty much think in an insulated way, ie dont think about consequences, mortality, etc. So to come home to that would be frightening, for sure. The home invasion, like you said, worse. That had to be horrible.

I would imagine if you were taken to a Dr after that incident and the Dr was basically told you'd been acting diff since that time, he/she would diagnose (which they shldnt, but..) based on that. I still can't see adhd and bipolarity coming from that one incident.

Did you talk to a therapist back then? Do you now?

Misdiagnosis are common, to be sure. Just looking at symptoms of PTSD and say, anxiety or depression, borderline personality disorder, etc, they have similar symptoms. It sucks that at 12 the Dr didn't take more time or suggest a therapist, especially with the meds he probably prescribed for you. Long term, I would think those type of meds shld come from a psychiatrist...

Anyhow, maybe the incident at 12 triggered something from when you were younger? Idk. It probably would help to talk to a therapist whatever the case may be because it clearly bothers you still, and understandably so.

Take care and hope this helped a bit...