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15-10-2006, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Kells How can anyone diagnose your wife with GAD if she already has been diagnosed with PTSD? | Your not wrong Kells... read multiple diagnosis with PTSD, as that will answer all your questions. It is BS, and nothing more than stupidity on the therapists / physicians behalf. They do it because they either fail to understand what PTSD really is outside of the criteria, or they do it in order to help their kickbacks for medication prescriptions, ie. you have PTSD + GAD + Major Depression.... 3 or 4 prescription excuse, opposed to one prescription for just PTSD, as PTSD encompasses GAD and Major Depression. Morons... oxygen thiefs even... but certainly not looking after the best interest of the patient. |
18-10-2006, 04:27 AM
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| |  ABout the GAD
I have brought this up also, but my wife's argument is that others in her immediate family have anxiety without having been exposed to trauma...and are on medication for it. Her family does have a history of mental illness, no doubt about it. Her GAD diagnosis came well before she realized that PTSD was affecting her life, and to what degree (we are still working on that part). So she clings to that GAD diagnosis, right or wrong, as proof that it "isn't just PTSD"... |
18-10-2006, 07:26 AM
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Hi Superd,
Just a quick observation - it seems that if your wife can cling to the pre-existing diagnosis then she doesn't have to work on getting better (i.e. she was just born that way)
But more importantly, how are you doing these days?
~Boo |
18-10-2006, 09:26 AM
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| | hey Boo,
Thanks for asking...I'm ok. I tend to internalize alot of our stress, and combined with the fact that I have had several trials lately, it wasn't fun...but work has slowed considerably and Kim's attitude seems to have improved overall despite not having gone to therapy in two weeks...we'll see |
19-10-2006, 04:02 PM
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Boo, that sounds like you may have something there. My mom, and used to, sis took meds for anxiety. Could say we have a family history too. But I would be dodging the real issue. Let me see if can remember all the crap they tagged on my list, hope I don't leave any out. PTSD, agoraphobia, social phobia, panic disorder, severe depression, and obsessive compulsive disorder. But just a "light case" of that last one. It is nonsense.
Superd, I am glad she seems to be feeling better, but I hope you can get her back in therapy. Good luck to you. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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