[university girl]

Shoot... just typed 3 paragraphs but my pinky got spastic and deleted it all.

Here it goes again...

Saw my psychiatrist (drug doctor) today. She is stuck on the psychosis thingy with me. She now says I show signs of early stage psychosis. Earlier she was calling it a "rare form of schizophrenia". And I learned where she is coming from. She told me today she has done a lot of work in early stage psychosis. Gives me the impression her thoughts are a bit skewed. This happens frequently with docs I have noticed. They tend to stick to diagnosing something they have a lot of experience with. It's interesting to note that I've never even heard the word psychosis from any of the previous psychs I've been to (and I have read their assessment letters to my GP). Read on...

I realized today that she has been misinterpreting and twisting around things I have said to make it seem as though I hear voices, have odd bodily sensations, and have had a deteriorating condition (characteristics of schizos) despite my efforts to correct her. I feel as though I need to hire a lawyer in order to accurately represent my case... :? Perhaps she has a mental disorder (my pscych).

She has a hard time accepting that it was the marijuana which pushed me over the edge. She won't even recognize it. Jason and others , I do accept and agree that I was predisposed- I was a worrier, yada yada yada but I was in no way going through early-stage psychosis before the marijana (she thinks I was...). When asked about the marijauna part, she said my disorder would have gone away after 3 months had it been the marijuana. HAHAHAHAHA (this is where you are supposed to laugh). Now I'm not the smartest girl around town but I have done some reading and I know this is not true. There are a number of chronic marijauna-induced DPers out there.

When I tell psychs that I think I have DP, they shrug it off and say "it's rare". Well no shit it's rare when they are never willing to diagnose it!

 

[Guest]

wana smoke a bowl? haha j/k....yeah i am now realizing(sp?) that marijuana is really not a good thing to smoke. i seriously regret doing it. and i have smoked pot literally 1000's of times. it steals motivation, and definetly opens up the door for mental probs...yeah, the good ol' reefer is just going to have to be a thing of the past for me....*sigh* oh well, therre is always beer~!!!!! totally j/k....uni g, screw her, look at her like she is your inferior....bye

-Robbie

 

[kenc127]

Uni

You should probably get a new shrink. Staying with this doc any longer could get you into problems with meds and fearful thinking. I would go with the what the majority of your other docs said. Also, you have ahd DP fpr a long time yes? And things have remained unchanged yes?

I have read some stories about the early stages of schizophrenia. Yes it is true that they mimic DP symptoms. The difference is that schizophrenics exhibit psychotic behavior immediately. They go beyond the DP into something worse. We stop at the DP point and are able to maintain our sanity thankfully. Bits and pieces of their behavior seem odd, and they gradually get worse. It happens pretty quickly from what I gather. If you have enough insight to know that your hearing is a little screwy, and that your brain may not be perceiveing sounds correctly, you are not hearing voices lol.

An example of a story I read a while ago. A mother was telling the story of her son's break with reality. At 15 years old she would hear him in his room talking to his voices. When she asked him what it was he was talking to, he would just deny it and tell her nothing. Ok. THAT is the first sign right there lol. He then progressed further to the point where he thought God was talking to him through a lightbulb and he would randomly run out of the house laughing in the middle of the night. The first signs were that he talked to his voices, and they occurred quickly. The onset was rapid.

You're not there, and you will never be. You're very sane. Your doc is an educated idiot, not realizing the damaging consequences an inaccurate diagnosis can bring to the patient. He/she sounds very biased and seems pretty eager to diagnose people with psychotic disorders.

Ken

 

[Kelson12]

I can't wait to see what Janine thinks...she should have a ball with this one! :lol:

 

[Guest]

It looks like your psychiatrist is the one having delusions and not you. I am starting to believe that being seriously mentally ill is one of the qualifications you must have in order to be a psych doc. I mean these idiots do not listen, they diagnose you with disorders that do not fit what you are describing and they prescribe you pills that cause brain damage. If law enforcement could see the true extent to what these idiots are doing then they'd lock them up jail for life or send them to institutions and give them electric shock treatments all day long. Why even bother with these guys anymore uni girl? Unless you seriously feel like it's going to help you. It definetly sounds like more of a hindrance to me.

 

[Guest]

Hey, I've had problems too with my current psych- I've realised that you don't need someone to twist things and make things even harder...you need someone that will help, not make things more frustrating... I know shrinks are frustrating anyway but sounds like a change'll do ya good.......And what is it with shrinks thinking that pot damage to us goes away quickly when it has clearly affected us??? How dumb do they get!!!!!!!!!

 

[Guest]

Please liscen to what people say here...

You can't have schizo since * years w/o hearing voices and loosing contact with reality. You can't. You're not schizo

Change doc!

Cynthia

 

[Beth]

I just had a psychiatric assessment and the guy told me I don't have dp. He told me I didn't have schizophrenia either though, which is nice. He didn't seem to want to give me any label, made me feel a bit lost, since one thing that's reassuring when I'm at a middling/far distance to reality is that I know other people here have felt very similar things. That upset me for about a day, I wouldn't have minded him undiagnosing me if he'd explained then what he thought it was, but he wouldn't even try. Which would be a perfectly handable problem except that he has decided I'm not to have the cbt i was waiting for. So now I'm back where I was before I tried speaking to a doctor.