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Originally Posted by young&angry So when I see a new specialist or therapist, I don't mention it, they just asses me, and so far... every single one has diagonosed me with PTSD. |
My shrink in Townsville put it the best for me when I asked him about this, and that was something like this;
"its not the person trying to fake it that does wrong, its the doctor that doesn't know their faking it that does wrong!"
As you found out, a good doctor who has experience with PTSD knows the difference from someone faking it, to someone with PTSD... there is a huge difference when you ask the right questions. As I have said before, I wouldn't know someone had PTSD by just looking at them, but if I sat down with them for a few minutes and asked them some questions, I would know pretty quickly, as I have had my own reactions pointed out to me, and everyone with PTSD pretty much has the same reactions, or most off anyway, when asked about specific issues.
So these amateur doctors who are trying to big note themselves, need to step back and really take a look at things. I personally think the medical boards should just revoke their licenses for putting stupid things in the market place.
It really disgusts me that there are doctors out their who don't know how to diagnose correctly... that is disturbing.
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Originally Posted by piglet I'm trying to put things in very basic and simple way, so please don't be offended and think I'm minimising anybody's condition- I'm just thinking of helping the non-ptsd people get it without doing the ptsd=crazy thing. |
I think its actually some young pup coming up who wants to just leave their mark on things, so they can look back and say, "I did that" to their collegues, without any regard for us who suffer this shit. An already correct diagnosis is available, being PostTraumatic Stress (PTS), which also runs under a few variations, being PostTraumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS) and PostTraumatic Syndrome (PTS). They are all one in the same.
The full dianosis that meets the DSM-IV-TR is for PTSD, which is where the doctors are screwing up. They are diagnosing people with PTS under PTSD. The first is curable, the second is not.
I honestly think it has something to do with the mere fact they cannot cure it, which makes them hate it, and hate knowing as professionals within that field that they can't do anything. Doctors have been researching veterans from WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, 20+ year accident, rape and abuse victims, all of which still after all this time have the same affects as they did the day they realized something was wrong with them, and that they had PTSD.
This is another case where a person has mentioned they have been cured off PTSD, on
Bob Parsons weblog (the owner of Go Daddy Inc), as he has PTSD also. It isn't Bob saying he is cured, exactly the opposite actually, but I'll get to that one in a minute.
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As a sufferer of PTSD, there is help out there. It's called Rapid Eye Movement Therapy and was discovered completely by accident by a therapist working with Vietnam vets. It involves sitting with a trained therapist who has the PTSD patient recall the incident in detail in their mind (not out loud) while watching the therapist finger or a light or some other object move back and forth in front of their face. I have no idea why it works, but it worked wonders for me. I can now recall without concern incidents that used to provoke serious panic attacks. If you suffer from PTSD, look into it.
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Now I am taking a guess at this one, but from the bold sentence I highlighted, it seems to me that this Betty Morgan is saying she is all ok now, as what used to cause her into panic attacks, no longer does. If this is the case, then I doubt very much she had PTSD, and more likely misdiagnosed with PTS.
Basically, PTS is short term anxiety and related symptoms after a traumatic event, which is what most normal people would be expected to get. PTSD is permanent, where regardless what treatment you get, the symptoms continuously come back, sometimes worse, sometimes less, but they always return, thus giving PTSD is incurable state.
Now this is what I really liked from Bob Parsons, in relation to his PTSD:
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How I learned to manage PTSD.
I was fortunate enough to locate a psychologist who was also a retired Navy Ensign. His specialty way back then — he was a man ahead of his time — was PTSD. I visited with this psychologist (try as I might, I can no longer remember his name) for a few months, and I quickly got better. In fact, after the first session, there was a noticeable improvement. It felt so good to talk with someone who understood (and somehow knew) what I was going through. Overtime, I told him everything. With his assistance, I developed four truths that I needed to get through my head in order to deal with PTSD. Those four truths, which I remind myself of to this very day, are:
1. Life is not fair.
2. What happened back then means nothing today.
3. Nobody owes me anything because of what I went through in Viet Nam.
4. Nobody cares about what happened to me back in Viet Nam.
I realize that the above truths are pretty cold and hard. But PTSD is a cold and hard disease. I have no idea how PTSD is treated today, but those four truths as I came to know them, sure worked for me. I'm not sure if those truths — which helped me deal with PTSD — will work for those who are serving in our armed forces during the current conflict. But they were necessary for me.
Subsequent to my visits with the psychologist, I took some time off and put down on paper what I remembered about the war. I mostly wrote about my first night in the bush, and my last. Plenty happened during those two nights. Although this writing was only 20 or so pages, it took me several days to complete it. After I was finished, I gave a copy to each of my children and to my wife at the time. Each of them told me the same thing after reading it — "I had no idea."
Writing about what happened was a healing experience for me. It allowed me to unload what I experienced, and to stand back and look at it. I was able to see it outside of — and not part of — myself. I realized that I did experience and deal with quite a bit, and there was no wonder that it came back to trouble me.
After visiting with the psychologist and writing about my Viet Nam experiences, PTSD (for the most part) became manageable for me. It has never gone completely away, but I now know how to deal with it. It's no longer the problem it once was for me.
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And that last highlighted sentence is the aim with PTSD. That is a very well stated sentence in my honest opinion.