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Here they don't do any diagnosis. When you try to talk to them about condition x or y they try to come up with reasons why you shouldn't have it and not having 1 symptom unfortunatly doesn't mean you don't have the condition but they invalidate your feelings and thought all the way through i feel like.
No way. They're just there to push medication of some kind on you. That's all they are really trained to do as well as making a snap diagnosis on the spot. One of the last times I was at one the doctor literally became frustrated on all the medication recommendations they were trying to give me. I've been on almost all of them at some point. Everything they would recommend I would tell them what my experience was which was usually paradoxical side effects. Example, if it was a anti-psychotic which is supposed to keep you calm like Seroquel it did the opposite and put me into a rage. For whatever reason medications do that to me. That or I get really bad side effects like rashes or even at one point one made me hear delusions and I am in no way a schizophrenic. They never understand that. They find me a difficult patient. What I want is basically the opposite of their bullshit profession, which is to get the fuck off this planet.
The psychiatrists use the "DSM" manual as their guide. You have to meet a certain number of "criteria" of a disorder before you are diagnosed with that disorder. Each disorder has a code number. That code number is used for insurance billing. That's basically how it works.
What do you call someone who graduates at the bottom of their med school class?
Well they use the dsm ,but there is a lot of overlapping, and perception of the DR plays a large part. As I said in my case many dont even believe in DID. While statistics show there are more people with DID then Schizophrenia. Yet we can all spot somebody with Schizophrenia. You've never have spotted DID. You can see how they let DID down big time.
Yes that is from my medical file from the second psychiatrist I saw in that ward. The first one wasn't as freaked out by me lol, I just laugh every time I read thatlol is that real assessment
In *theory,* they use the DSM. I had a psychiatrist who didn't believe my established autism diagnosis because "real autistic patients don't care about forming emotional relationships with other humans." He didn't even ask about most of the diagnostic criteria listed in the DSM. (Also, if he had actually read the DSM, he would know that he was describing schizoid personality disorder, not autism.)
No, everything was blamed on my depression. Only when i was finally out and back to my therapist, I got my autism diagnosis.
Thats fucked up. Good mash potatoes are one of the few things to look forward to in life
Not at all, I have been to 6 different psych wards a total of 12 times or smth. Each time I was diagnosed with completely different stuff. The only times these were identical is the two times I was discharged and taken back within 48 hours, usually there are some that stay the same. For example, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Except there is always a few that they seem to put on my files that I either haven't been diagnosed with before, or stuff that I was NOT diagnosed with the last time.
I KNEW THE MASHED POTATO EPIDEMIC WASN'T JUST THE PSYCH WARDS I WENT TO
