I am new here, the result of a new year resolution to not try and cope on my own. I have just been diagnosed with Bi-polar type 2 with complex PTSD after 20 years of mental health problems. Also have an under active thyroid that has just stabilised. Due for a scan to see if I have gall stones. After four years of involvement from the local mental health team, and never seeing the same psychiatrist, I did something I never thought I would do, or need too, I went private. Diagnosis now made, new drug regimen, feeling a lot better and no longer labelled as borderline personality disorder. New psychiatrist actually returns phone calls, and changes medications when side effects become intolerable, result! Although I will have health challenges in 2017, I am feeling much more positive and relieved that I am considered a partner in managing my mental health condition, rather than being patronised, or punished for not getting better.
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Hi Fi,
Welcome to the community. How empowering this must have felt for you. It's good to hear, and very reassuring.
Lori
Interesting Fi68 to not be labelled as borderline how wonderful
Hi Fi68
I recently came across this on Amazon and thought of you. I hope you find this book to be useful given your previous misdiagnosis and the important new partnership you are developing with your new psychiatrist.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A GUIDE AND MAP FOR RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA Kindle Edition by Pete Walker (Author)
From the author:
I have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd.
I felt encouraged to write this book because of thousands of e-mail responses to the articles on my website that repeatedly expressed gratitude for the helpfulness of my work. An often echoed comment sounded like this: At last someone gets it. I can see now that I am not bad, defective or crazy…or alone! have Complex PTSD [Cptsd] and wrote this book from the perspective of someone who has experienced a great reduction of symptoms over the years. I also wrote it from the viewpoint of someone who has discovered many silver linings in the long, windy, bumpy road of recovering from Cptsd.
I felt encouraged to write this book because of thousands of e-mail responses to the articles on my website that repeatedly expressed gratitude for the helpfulness of my work. An often echoed comment sounded like this: At last someone gets it. I can see now that I am not bad, defective or crazy…or alone!
All good wishes for 2017.
Abestar