Official Diagnosis Of Ptsd - Good Idea?

[RedRose]

Thanks Kwan Yin Girl, for the reminder of the sh1t you suffered.

Just to re emphasise for anyone who di...

Hi Anarchy, yeah I was also a little afraid of this. And again, it's not from shame that I perhaps wouldn't want to have a diagnosis formalised, but that I know how abused and misunderstood these things can be both within the medical community and in the world at large. The primary reason for me, I think, is needing the validation. There are days where my mind and my memories are not fully integrated, and and I cannot recall what happened and actually start to become afraid that maybe all those things I was told about myself *were* true and so on, and so having that diagnosis, well it would help counter that perhaps. But I dinnae want to be labelled as crazy, because it's happened before and man was it nasty.

 

[KwanYingirl]

The reality of my situation was that because I had pre existing PTSD, a disability, that the accommodations I required to protect me from the chemicals was even more compelling. I think a jury would have taken my side as they are twelve of my peers not who're insurance lawyers. But my docs said I was too fragile and they feared I would commit suicide from the attack they would launch against me. My lawyer sucked. About two years ago, it was brought to my attention that my lawyer and the hospitals Vice President in charge of environmental safety are neighbors in a wealthy neighborhood. I have to prove a conflict of interest and sue my lawyer. Yeah, like I could find a lawyer to sue another lawyer. f*ck it.