PTSD = Emotional Disability

[Jade-]

I recently needed the therapist that I fired to fill out some paper work for me. He put down that I have PTSD but also added that it's an "emotional disability" in reference to what PTSD actually is. I haven't given the paperwork to the people I need to give it to because, quite honestly, I think adding that makes it seem/sound like I'm just not in control of my emotions and It wouldn't be beneficial to me in any way to have it worded that way.

But, that's all besides the point of this post. In the most simplistic terms, is that what PTSD is? If we take away how the brain works, what causes PTSD, triggers and all the other stuff, are our emotions at the core of it? I guess what he wrote really bugs me and now I am overthinking all of this.

 

[Movingforward10]

Interesting.
I suppose all mental health problems are then?

Maybe it's how you holding the word "emotional"?

 

[Midnightmoon]

This is the guy that was awful wasn't it?

I read this wrong at first as 'emotional instability' and thought it was him deciding to try and throw the blame towards you. In the UK emotional instability seems to be some psychs favourite code of 'difficult but I can't put that on the letter'...

Considering the appalling ways he 'practiced' I'd take anything he wrote with a heavy pinch of salt...

 

[whiteraven]

are our emotions at the core of it?

I believe that emotions follow thoughts. So for me, PTSD is about how we think and respond to trauma. It's way more complicated than that, I guess, and there are many factors, but this is what helps me understand how I react to things.

He put down that I have PTSD but also added that it's an "emotional disability" in reference to what PTSD actually is.

It's very awkward and prejudicial wording, I think, but it seems accurate. Why, though, would he have to put anything? And why not give a more standard definition if he had to give one at all?

I also had issues with a psychiatrist who actually fired me. I reported him to the Board of his organization and ended up getting him fired. I have no doubt any info or paperwork he might have provided would have not been completely professional. Doctors are people first, and it's not beyond them to make things difficult for past patients if they are angry or upset about what happened.

I haven't given the paperwork to the people I need to give it to because, quite honestly, I think adding that makes it seem/sound like I'm just not in control of my emotions and It wouldn't be beneficial to me in any way to have it worded that way.

I don't blame you! Is it possible to get another medical professional to fill out paperwork for you?

 

[Sideways]

PTSD is a mental illness, which causes dysfunction with emotions and thoughts and behaviour.

Those last 2 are big ones to oops-forgot!

 

[Jade-]

Thanks for the replies guys. I was over-thinking it when I made my post.

Although what he wrote on the form bugs me I am going to try my best to just let it all go. And I will also actually turn the paperwork in and not care whether it's beneficial to me or not that he added the part about emotional disability.

I had said in my other thread I didn't think that T had a clue about PTSD anyway. He proved that many times over. And I guess I shouldn't be surprised by what he wrote.