What were you diagnosed with?

[Letmego. Please]

Dam, sorry @Nochoice
Yes i have sadly been around the block a few times, starting way before they invented the slightly 'nicer' new anti psycho's & anti d's right up to the likes of Seroquel. It makes me so fucking mad that they fob people off with such dangerous shit, you are not the first person i have met who was given that shit to 'help' with sleep or anxiety, it's a flipping anti psychotic & is damaging enough if you are psychotic, but for me they should never ever be scribed unless the person is having an acute episode or needs it for maintenance long term. And to actively tell you not to read any info on the med is so wrong i would need many rude words to try to describe my feeling about that.

Are you in a country where you could sue the useless bugger?

I am sorry to hear about your Sister as well, sadly they are all mind altering chemicals but the shrinks then seem surprised when they permanently alter a brain, again only very rude words could describe my feelings about their use of these drugs willy nilly, so many people never come back, i have refused these meds since i learned about them 20 odd yrs ago. Hugs

 

[Ella Disenchanted]

Depression, complex ptsd, social phobia, bulimia, autism.

 

[NoChoice]

@Letmego. Please Yeah it's literally unbelievable, no one believes me when I say hey I took this drug I was prescribed and it gave me a horrific amount of brain damage that ruined my life.. like what? They just look at me like I'm crazy because it didn't paralyze me or ruin my ability to speak, it just destroyed everything inside of me and robbed me of my life and humanity, it does sicken me and make me feel enraged because of how evil this is to do to someone, and the prescriber took no responsibility saying this medicine is safe and it's simply impossible, again looked at like I'm crazy which now I very well am due to the damage. From what I've read it's very difficult to win this type of lawsuit and I don't believe I'd be able to, besides whats the use? I guess the money would help my family but nothing can help me. I'm glad you have refused them, I really see them to be evil and all I can do is tell my story to hopefully save someone from getting their life taken away from them like mine did, there are no words to describe this.

 

[goxua]

Bipolar II, OCD, depression, anxiety, anorexia, bulimia, and PTSD.

I'm attacking some memories and feelings never examined with a new pdoc soon so I imagine I might be adding to the list above.

 

[Letmego. Please]

@Letmego. Please Yeah it's literally unbelievable, no one believes me when I say hey I took this drug I was prescribed and it gave me a horrific amount of brain damage that ruined my life.. like what? They just look at me like I'm crazy because it didn't paralyze me or ruin my ability to speak, it just destroyed everything inside of me and robbed me of my life and humanity, it does sicken me and make me feel enraged because of how evil this is to do to someone, and the prescriber took no responsibility saying this medicine is safe and it's simply impossible, again looked at like I'm crazy which now I very well am due to the damage. From what I've read it's very difficult to win this type of lawsuit and I don't believe I'd be able to, besides whats the use? I guess the money would help my family but nothing can help me. I'm glad you have refused them, I really see them to be evil and all I can do is tell my story to hopefully save someone from getting their life taken away from them like mine did, there are no words to describe this.

Out of all the 'Medical' specialities Psych is the most insidious and maladaptive of the lot, refusing to learn from past mistakes, almost impossible to question & full of some of the most twisted people i have ever had the displeasure of meeting, i was given old anti psycho's in the early 90's without anyone telling me what they were making me take every day, as such i didn't know that the effects i was having were anything to do with the pills. So thats why i have refused ever since.
Sadly my brain damage came from 3x8 sessions of ECT that i was forced against my will to suffer.

 

[NoChoice]

Out of all the 'Medical' specialities Psych is the most insidious and maladaptive of the lot, refusing to learn from past mistakes, almost impossible to question & full of some of the most twisted people i have ever had the displeasure of meeting, i was given old anti psycho's in the early 90's without anyone telling me what they were making me take every day, as such i didn't know that the effects i was having were anything to do with the pills. So thats why i have refused ever since.
Sadly my brain damage came from 3x8 sessions of ECT that i was forced against my will to suffer.

Unbelievable, when I explained the brain damage they said it was impossible and offered me ECT. I was in disbelief and realize how I never should've trusted them, they are more like a money machine than an organization of people. It's a really sad way to die from something that sickening and evil, yet some people claim it saves their lives or helps them which really amazes me. This is the same industry that is well documented to have been doing ice pick lobotomies around 70 years ago :)

 

[Letmego. Please]

@Nochoice I'm glad you refused the ECT it is to me truly evil & not a lot better than being lobotomised. If you take say Anesthesia & where they were 100yrs ago verses what they can do now it is brilliant, but Psych just doesn't seem to advance at the same rate, i know that the Pharma companies don't see a great profit in it hence why they are just reusing the same old stuff off label & it's not nice & 'consumer' friendly like cancer to attract funding so research is limited & the people who specialise in psych research are going to be few and far between if there are no jobs to go into.
It's almost like the medical dead end, i have long suspected from the shrinks i have met, that they would have failed to become a Dr of the medical grade so its full of disgruntled wanna be Dr's who weren't smart enough.

 

[Thewhowithin69]

I've been reading these posts and the ones about being damaged from psych meds makes me furious!!
I have plenty of diagnosis but don't know if they matter or are even accurate. The only one I know for sure is cptsd and major depression. They also said bipolar but I only had manic episodes after they put me on psych meds so it looks to me like I've been reacting to meds from the start! I also had a therapist who said no question I have dissociative identity disorder but feel like that may just be cptsd too. I am.currently thinking maybe boderline fits too because I can't seem to maintain any "normal" relationships. I had a traumatic brain injury at 3 yrs of age that I think damaged my brain so much that all these years later I'm still suffering... so yes horrific childhood abuse but obvious mental illness too and who knows which came first??
I know I have a genetic mutation and I have had cancer and many other health issues that are considered "random" but because I have a mental health history no doctor will take me seriously and dismisses all my symptoms as psych issues. Actually latest was fibromyalgia and crps post spinal fusion....chronic pain for sure. I KNOW something is wrong in my body and felt like it was fixable but maybe that's just my crazy talking, huh?? Whatever,
I cannot take any synthetic meds anymore and I will NOT do ECT ever again so I'm left trying to manage with plants only. I cannot wait til I'm able to ctb....this life is pure torture!!

 

[Sanguinius]

Bipolar II, Depression, and Complex PTSD.

Something like did?

 

[Exile]

Depression, anxiety, BPD - I also have misophonia and believe that I have PTSD. Insomnia is the cherry on top.

 

[Crimsonskye]

Depression anxiety disorder and generally being a cunt

 

[PsychoPyro]

Major Depressive Disorder, anxiety, hEDS, POTS, fibromyalgia, severe chronic pain (which is the #1 reason above anything else at all that I plan to kill myself)

 

[Mark Edward]

Since I was a young child, I have had very low self-esteem.
To change how I felt, I served in an elite regiment in the British army and later worked as an EMT.
I was very good at pretending to be professional, when in reality I was a Wanker.
I still feel like I am rubbish, human trash...

 

[VoloFataliDoce]

I've been diagnosed with PTSD and depression. My psychiatrist has pretty well given up on me. Of course, he can't say that, but it is absolutely implied every time I go to his office. He's put me on all of the newer meds, and now has me on Nardil, which is very old and supposed to work a lot better. I couldn't tell that it did a bit of good in the year that I was on it so I stopped taking it. He suggested ECT several times and I've refused. I've personally seen people who have had it done and they are so much worse than they were before. I told him that I wanted to keep what little mental faculties I have. This is supposed to be the best doctor in the area. I think the idea of giving up is mutual. Too bad I couldn't get him to prescribe me 15 grams of N...

 

[SeekingSolace]

BPD, Depression, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Epilepsy, and they suspect Crohn's Disease.

 

[stellabelle]

Bipolar, and some other meaningless label that I disregarded. They just want to slap labels on everything. It's all bullshit to me.

 

[NoChoice]

Bipolar, and some other meaningless label that I disregarded. They just want to slap labels on everything. It's all bullshit to me.

A+ for you... The more diagnosable illnesses, the more medication prescriptions, the more money.

The brain (source of "mental illness") - the most complicated and misunderstood thing in the entire known universe.
Psychiatry - diagnoses chronic mental illnesses often within 15 minutes of first meeting, judging purely off of physical behavior (no brain tests or scans ever) often disregarding the substance of what someone is saying they feel like for their tone, facial expression, body language etc. and then prescribing them "medicines" that are not only poorly pharmacologically (MOA) understood but, the targeted illness has never been proven to even exist in the first place and is based purely on pseudoscience. Such as the theory that excess dopamine causes schizophrenia; not only has that been proven to be more and more false every day, but we don't even know for sure what the function of dopamine is! So not only do they not know what they are treating or how to treat it, but they can't even prove if you have the illness that they don't understand or know how to treat, because it probably doesn't exist in such a concrete, fixable fashion. Hurts to think about doesn't it?

It's not hard to believe this is the same industry responsible for the ice pick lobotomy (shoving ice picks into the eye sockets to damage the frontal lobes with no anesthesia) used for any and every mental illness just less than 70 years ago.
Psychiatric institutions were overcrowded and underfunded. Sternburg writes, "Lobotomy kept costs down; the upkeep of an insane patient cost the state $35,000 a year while a lobotomy cost $250, after which the patient could be discharged."

I just can't help but wonder when, if ever, a human life will be valued more than some arbitrary amount of currency that is backed by nothing more than the corrupt government that benefits from it.

 

[stellabelle]

A+ for you... The more diagnosable illnesses, the more medication prescriptions, the more money.

The brain (source of "mental illness") - the most complicated and misunderstood thing in the entire known universe.
Psychiatry - diagnoses chronic mental illnesses often within 15 minutes of first meeting, judging purely off of physical behavior (no brain tests or scans ever) often disregarding the substance of what someone is saying they feel like for their tone, facial expression, body language etc. and then prescribing them "medicines" that are not only poorly pharmacologically (MOA) understood but, the targeted illness has never been proven to even exist in the first place and is based purely on pseudoscience. Such as the theory that excess dopamine causes schizophrenia; not only has that been proven to be more and more false every day, but we don't even know for sure what the function of dopamine is! So not only do they not know what they are treating or how to treat it, but they can't even prove if you have the illness that they don't understand or know how to treat, because it probably doesn't exist in such a concrete, fixable fashion. Hurts to think about doesn't it?

It's not hard to believe this is the same industry responsible for the ice pick lobotomy (shoving ice picks into the eye sockets to damage the frontal lobes with no anesthesia) used for any and every mental illness just less than 70 years ago.
Psychiatric institutions were overcrowded and underfunded. Sternburg writes, "Lobotomy kept costs down; the upkeep of an insane patient cost the state $35,000 a year while a lobotomy cost $250, after which the patient could be discharged."

I just can't help but wonder when, if ever, a human life will be valued more than some arbitrary amount of currency that is backed by nothing more than the corrupt government that benefits from it.

I couldn't have ever said this any better. Thank you for your lengthy response. You are correct regarding all of the above.

As for the last part, unfortunately that will never happen. It's a gold mine.

 

[nooo2]

Depression, ADHD , Severe Anxiety , Social Anxiety , Anti-Social Disorder , ADD, and severe Trichotillomania

All of these don't add up to well, literally ruined my life lmao.

 

[Jiva]

Double deformation of my backbone with partial closure of the spinal canal, chronic pain.

 

[ScottPilgram]

Depression. I don't always understand it and I've felt depressed for as long as I can remember. Apperently my family has a history of mental illness (mostly being depression). My dad and older sister also have depression.
edit: should add I was diagnosed after I admitted myself into a stress center in 2015

 

[Letmego. Please]

Since I was a young child, I have had very low self-esteem.
To change how I felt, I served in an elite regiment in the British army and later worked as an EMT.
I was very good at pretending to be professional, when in reality I was a Wanker.
I still feel like I am rubbish, human trash...

Mate you are a human being, i even think i'm a nice person, but i still know i can be a wanker. By the sounds of it you have done a lot of good while trying to hide from yourself, which is exhausting in it's self. I for one will never think of you as a wanker in anything other than the best tradition's of british humour.....

 

[Sundayafternoon]

Life, the most dreadful disease of them all with a 100% mortality rate.

May sound like gibberish among all the serious answers here but life can be a disease if it becomes miserable and painful.

Hard to get rid of, harder to live through, even the good things like movies or music are just a distraction to avoid thinking about your disease for a moment.

I was diagnosed with life and probably have severe depression, schizoid disorder and anxiety.

YES! I have been diagnosed with EXISTENCE. Every other diagnosis in the DSM that they sat around and agreed upon all fall under the umbrella of EXISTENCE.

ETA: official diagnosis MDD/AVPD/PTSD/BPD/ADD...my fault.

 

[RRH]

Generalised and Social Anxiety.

Treatment Resistant Depression.

I also display several traits of Borderline Personality Disorder, although have never been officially diagnosed with it.

 

[Raggas]

Major depressive disorder. Now they think I have early stage schizophrenia due to my complete apathetic reaction to life.

 

[whereisfreedom]

Chronic pain, probably autoimmune pancreatitis, osteoporosis, depression...
No really treatments because I deny treatments by docs.

 

[GreyMagic]

Currently diagnosed with:

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Mixed anxiety/depression
• PTSD
• Selective Mutism

 

[KiraLittleOwl]

ADHD, OCD, BPD, SOCIAL PHOBIA, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, SHIZOID dis.
GENDER DYSPHORIA

 

[Boonks]

I don't know what the truth is because every hospital says something different. I just know that I'm fucked. I was diagnosed with depression, bipolar, and borderline personality disorder, though. And I think drug induced psychosis? Idfk anymore fml.

 

[Meretlein]

OCD. Thats it.