Posted by alexandra_k on February 11, 2005, at 18:32:28
In reply to Re: p-doc and coming assessment » alexandra_k, posted by Pfinstegg on February 11, 2005, at 17:59:05
My current diagnoses are Generalised Anxiety, Dysthymia, PTSD, and Borderline Personality.
I needed the last one to get one year of DBT. It was made in order for me to get that - well, I 'passed' the standardised tests that I had to do in a qualifying assessment. To tell you the honest truth I studied up on the criteria and bore that in mind. No outright lies, but a fair ammount of 'stretching'... I don't feel bad. I did what I had to do to get what I needed. It was my only available treatment option and it would only become an option if I 'passed' those standardised tests. I justified it by considering 'that was a pretty borderline thing to do anyways'. None of those diagnoses are sufficient to get the public health service to fund private treatment, though. CBT therapists can treat those conditions. There are CBT therapists in the public service who are working okay with other people with those conditions.
Thats why I am being sent to a dissociative disorder specialist. I am okay talking about the missing time. Talking about the voices. But not if she wants to 'meet' the voices. That is not okay.
But I don't know whether DDNOS will do it (in terms of obtaining funding) or whether it has to be DID. And if it has to be DID then I need to know whether she needs to meet them before she can make the diagnosis. The majority of clinicians over here do not consider it to be a legitimate diagnosis. So my bet is she would be very careful to make the diagnosis 'by the book' as opposed to our arriving at some general, unofficial 'agreement'. She will need to be able to justify making the diagnosis. Then the diagnosis will (hopefully) justify the public funding.
I would rather not have that diagnosis. But it seems to be a choice between treatment and no treatment (or 'treatment' where my real issues cannot be discussed).
I am not sure about abuse.
I am not convinced there *has* to be major abuse.
I am not at all convinced I suffered *major* abuse.But I was really really sensitive.
And from my perspective it was major - though another may have dealt with most of that and not had too much of a problem...
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