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Self Diagnosis Is Not An Option
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It more than bothers me, the laws need to be changed and the attitude towards persons has to be changed. You mentioned your hospital notes Cactus Jack that is just vitriolic and because the person that was writing the notes had a set idea about you they can write what they like. This to me is absolutely unacceptable. If you robbed a house there would to be absolute utter proof. A witness, not a persons opinion about you. The notes and other notes about you carry weight. How is that right that those sessions can keep someone involuntarily locked away.
I was horrified when this happened in the hospital-please dont make my condition any worse than it is. I am based in reality. I became somewhat defensive but tried not to show it. Where else do you not have the rights to stand up for yourself. If you were on a medical floor and the nurse was charting that your blood pressure was high, they probably would not chart your demeanor in correcting them. It makes me want to do more, to help with the rights of people with mental illness who are so often dismissed. In awhile I was able to find humor in the situation.
Funnier yet, the ER dr that admitted me yelled at my family and said "Who put her on all this medication". My daughter replied "why you did doctor". I was already on some meds and after an assault the ER added muscle relaxers and percocet to my regimen just days before. My insurance denied any therapy until after hospitalization. Makes absolutely no sense.
Funnier yet, the ER dr that admitted me yelled at my family and said "Who put her on all this medication". My daughter replied "why you did doctor". I was already on some meds and after an assault the ER added muscle relaxers and percocet to my regimen just days before. My insurance denied any therapy until after hospitalization. Makes absolutely no sense.
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No worries Pia. We were all new here at one time!
As for medical records, mine have been repeatedly demanded. Dig this- I have tried to go to college, but the disabled student services counselor demanded records on my disability. I had no enrolled yet, I had not asked for accommodations yet, but she still wanted the records. Except I cannot give them to her. They are sealed per court order. Under that order no one can unseal them without his explicit consent. Well, ANY district judge.
The disabled student services counselor refused to identify what she wanted from those records, be it medical, financial or legal. She said she would have to look at them and decide what she felt she needed. Records that are, it just so happens, are over 23 years old. I have had more disabling accidents since then, but no, those mean nothing to her. She wants the records from this specific case.
And unless the judge informs me different, I was made aware that ALL of my records. That means everything on me from the day I was born, Dec. 8th 1969 until Nov. of 1987. She still wants access. Why? So they can see that I reported being molested when I was a kid, and how the pigs did nothing? How I became suicidal at the age of 17 because I was forcefully raped, and treated like a criminal by the pigs? Why does the school need that?
As for medical records, mine have been repeatedly demanded. Dig this- I have tried to go to college, but the disabled student services counselor demanded records on my disability. I had no enrolled yet, I had not asked for accommodations yet, but she still wanted the records. Except I cannot give them to her. They are sealed per court order. Under that order no one can unseal them without his explicit consent. Well, ANY district judge.
The disabled student services counselor refused to identify what she wanted from those records, be it medical, financial or legal. She said she would have to look at them and decide what she felt she needed. Records that are, it just so happens, are over 23 years old. I have had more disabling accidents since then, but no, those mean nothing to her. She wants the records from this specific case.
And unless the judge informs me different, I was made aware that ALL of my records. That means everything on me from the day I was born, Dec. 8th 1969 until Nov. of 1987. She still wants access. Why? So they can see that I reported being molested when I was a kid, and how the pigs did nothing? How I became suicidal at the age of 17 because I was forcefully raped, and treated like a criminal by the pigs? Why does the school need that?
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Getting off-topic to what this threads intention is... please divert new conversations to a newly created thread.
MY BLOOD PRESSURE has gone up mega knots with this story. What is so profound is that a legacy of anguish and incredible despair on you has to be scrutinized and divulged to some student services counselor in order for you to pick up your life and have success in studies . You have to be dragged through it again and again. This sentencing of the label mental illness is what gets me. The indignant stripping away of self by these words and records adds tragic element to what already is so hard to contend with. The human spirit gets thrashed over and over again and then people wonder why there are reclusive persons and not only does she have on record what is you plight but the police can just look it up too.
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Self-diagnosis is faulty though.
But then what do you do with that self-diagnosis? How do you treat yourself? You don't have the knowledge, the experience, the insight - or, obviously, the medical qualifications - to provide yourself with those treatments that are accepted and generally work.
and also:
I meant to say this yesterday but forgot. As far as PTSD being a mental illness - you're right, it is recorded, and it does impinge on your life forever. As does PTSD. There is no cure for PTSD, just coping strategies and ways to make things easier to deal with. The PTSD - therefore the mental illness - is never removed. You can amend it - learn how to live with it and around it - but it's never really gone.
I don't care if I have the label of "4 headed alien from Mars" and its posted on a billboard in Times Square!!
I cant imagine how dangerous it would be for me to have attempted to deal with PTSD on my own and I was in enough pain it had to be treated. It wasn't a maybe.
I guess this bothers me because someone that really needs professional intervention may read it and think they can self-diagnose and treat themselves and end up in a bad situation. In my thoughts, if you don't share the commonality of PTSD and / or are not interested in a diagnosis, what is the point of being here. (I understand compassionate caretakers are here not my point, Lord bless them they definitely share in the commonality of PTSD)
Guess it hits a nerve with me cause I have seen how dangerous PTSD can be, nothing to be toyed with.
I cant imagine how dangerous it would be for me to have attempted to deal with PTSD on my own and I was in enough pain it had to be treated. It wasn't a maybe.
I guess this bothers me because someone that really needs professional intervention may read it and think they can self-diagnose and treat themselves and end up in a bad situation. In my thoughts, if you don't share the commonality of PTSD and / or are not interested in a diagnosis, what is the point of being here. (I understand compassionate caretakers are here not my point, Lord bless them they definitely share in the commonality of PTSD)
Guess it hits a nerve with me cause I have seen how dangerous PTSD can be, nothing to be toyed with.
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