Poll What Was Your Diagnosis/Misdiagnosis Prior to PTSD?

[Ed Norton]

Gotta love the licensed "professionals' :yuck:
My true misdiagnosis was bipolar with psychotic features.. All that has thankfully been corrected and reinforced with a strict and sensitive psychological test

 

[Hush92]

As we all know, PTSD can mimic so many other disorders (avoidant personality disorder, generalized anxiety d...

Nonspecific psychotic and anxiety disorder. Very vague. The psychiatrist could tell something was very wrong with me but my symptoms didn't fit in neat little categories of specific mental illnesses. (Would've been diagnosed as schizophrenic, but no negative symptoms) I didn't even have time to or feel comfortable mentioning the trauma my psychosis had caused me, because I feel like you don't get time to know your psychiatrist. I only saw them once a month, for like 30 minutes. Only the therapists I saw caught onto my symptoms of trauma and mentioned them.

Now I finally have a diagnosis I feel "comfortable" with and can seek resources for. (Psychotic depression and PTSD)

 

[Ruby5]

Adjustment disorder

 

[Gadgie]

I got told that I had depression, before in was diagnosed?

 

[Deleted member 34424]

The biggest question was what was I NOT misdiagnosed with before telling my mom I was being molested.

 

[asadafagahajakal]

Opposition defiant disorder