omg what

[lesbido]

"PTSD isn't really a disorder, do you know what that is? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It's a Mental Illness. I've had PTSD, I've been in a car accident."-career coordinator for the developmentally disabled

And I loooooove how he assumed I didn't know what I was diagnosed with because I have Tourette's/OCD/RAD (but, no, wait, I wasn't born with

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[lesbido]

Oh I wish it was a Post Traumatic Stress Kitten, that makes it sound so adorable and harmless...yeah, head hurting.

And he wondered why the client least likely to share his emotions wasn't saying anything after that point. Chalked it off to a "rebellious attitude." Well I guess it kinna is. A refusal to open up to probing questions one feels are inappropriate is rebelling the appropriateness of those conclusions disguised as questions.

[crystalra1ndr0p]

I was thinking the same thing- how can you SAY "Post Traumatic Stress DISORDER is not a disorder"?

*headdesk*

[katmoonshaker]

::head:laptop:: As someone with PTSD I'd happily loan you the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde to really give him PTSD. ::glares:: Oddly enough, I'm not familiar with RAD, please enlighten me! (Of course, it could be that we covered it in my BA+ in Psych but I have fibro & take a gazillion brain mush meds so...).

[lesbido]

Reactive Attachment Disorder, it's kind of a "newly discovered but always aware it was a problem and growing" disorder. Commonly occurs in adolescents when they are pulled out of their comfort zones too often and too early in their development. Usually a massive change, like um, moving across states, changing schools, divorce, sometimes, depending on how much of it the child is exposed to, often and repeatedly. It creates low impulse control, paranoia, "attention-seeking," things related to cognitive disorder like lack of empathy and can lead to psychopathy

[lesbido]

Oh and she was also like, "Some guy who pretended to be your friend tried to rape you like 4 years ago, you just have to get over it."

.head.desk.rage.eye-twitch.now.

[katmoonshaker]

I don't know if this is true about her "credibility", she did have lots of degrees from many different schools, all on display in her office. This is just what my current shrinks have said.

Trust your gut & your pdoc. Just because someone has managed to graduate from many different schools says NADA about how good they are. A diploma doesn't tell you what their grades were when they graduated. The fact that no one wants to be their patient however speaks volumes!! Thanks for the info on RAD!!

[haddayr]

You know what? Having your legs blown off in battle isn't a real disorder, either, then, 'cause you're not born with it and someone shot a bb gun at me once!

Also mental health disorders are magically not disorders 'cause I don't feel like doing anything today.

[pickleboot]

what is rad? just curious.

[lesbido]

Explained in a comment above. *with more detail than is probably necessary*

[pickleboot]

ok- bad head pain= no brain. i think my parents tried to get a p-doc to pin that on me when i was 20. did not work, he told my mom she was a frigid mother.

[lesbido]

Oooh, ouch

[leora]

There is an especially big difference between a period of depression triggered by a life event that is generally depressing to most people and a chronic depression that is unrelated to what is going on with your life. For one thing, the latter tends to fix itself with time and to be more easily influenced by life events. Similarly, if you're depressed because of a particular problem in your life, solving that problem will be great. But if you're depressed because you have depression, you may focus on whatever seems worst about your life, but fixing those things without fixing the depression will likely just change your focus. Very important distinctions, because what works for one does not work for the other.

Oh wait, sorry did I accidentally spill some sense in a snark community. I'll try to clean that up.

Just get some sunshine, that'll cheer ya right up. Works for everyone, all the time, because the sun is made of magic.

[crystalra1ndr0p]

Yeah, if anything he probably had an acute stress reaction. I had to explain that to my friend who thought he had PTSD when he had been in a car accident like a month before he said that.

I hate that "depression" thing too! This girl I went to school with told me that I didn't need antidepressants, because she only needed them to help her sleep for a while after her grandmother died. I wish people would understand that you're already really down when you're depressed, and then when something really bad happens it makes your world come to a standstill. Well, at least for me.

Your icon is awesome, btw.

[fallconsmate]

There's a huge difference between a pothole and a sinkhole. One is a blip on the antenna, and an appropriate reaction to a stressor. The other is that deep dark pit that you cannot see your way clear of. And I wish my damn doctor understood the difference.