Has anyone ended up in hospital being misdiagnosed with a label and given high dose meds? Anyone in denial or angry over being dubbed psychotic?
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I know your situation sucks, but I don’t get what do you intend of taking out of this site? Angry with being ill we all are…
Im looking for experinces of others really no anger im to flat to feel stuff.
Alright, carry on 
Haha yeah, I know this stuff happens a lot
I had an incident that landed me in the hospital a little over 8 years ago. The doc in the hospital saw me for less than 10 minutes and declared that I had 3 new personality disorders. This diagnosis was wildly inaccurate. When I got out and eventually found out about his diagnosis I brought it up to my pdoc. She said she totally disagreed and ruled them out and got them off my record.
Yeah when I was deep into psychosis I agreed on going to a psychiatrist to ease my mom’s worry about me. I went there, he had an intern and she basically asked me a bunch of questions. He left the room in the middle of it, came back and prescribed me an anti depressant and I wen’t home with a diagnosis of depression. One month later I was hospitalized with a paranoid sz diagnosis. Now I have a sza diagnosis.
Wow well this shows how far hospitals can go. My record has many wild diagnosis now when all I had was OCD and personality borderline? Now its psychosis, syomitisiation, schizotive disorder, self psychosis
Some spellings are wrong as I cant keep up or understand the words on the records I keep being told by doctors
My GP told me what my record said and I immediately showed him my â– â– â– â– â– and explained my adverse effects to rogaine and stuff and he then understood that my illness is based on adverse effects to things
Note to self: Never tell vampireeye what his record says…
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Do your meds help you?
Haha yeah dont tell me
They do. I think I’m sza, I have a mood disorder for sure.
I went to a psychiatrist in 2001 because I was extremely delusional with false beliefs of being a messiah and I thought the psychiatrist was either a journalist or a spy. She diagnosed me with borderline personality disorder and refused to help me get back into work by explaining my condition. She refused me any more appointments and I therefore stayed unemployed. After hitting a policeman with a break glass hammer in 2010 I was finally given a diagnosis of long term schizophrenia which explained me quitting the job in 2001. No one now says I am not schizophrenic and with the diagnosis I am now able to work due to being legally protected for my behaviour as officially ill.
I have never been in the hospital, but I was misdiagnosed for about 20 years. The misdiagnosis was my fault, as I never revealed many of the delusions I had.
I don’t think I’ve ever felt I was “dubbed psychotic,” but I was very angry at the psychiatrist when she gave me the diagnosis. I kept telling myself, “I’m not going back to this idiot!” But after calming down and really looking at the facts, I knew this is what I had.
I wonder if most people have trouble accepting the diagnosis. I certainly did.
Thats good it helps you, with me I feel my diagnosis and meds given were to much for me to handle. Things were more clear at the pdocs before hospital, we was not aware I was going to a mental hospital also. Held in and forced meds that make me rock back n forth was fun and games till I started having urination issues and stomach aches
I found some of my hospital records. The statements were wildly unfactual. Such as saying that I had homicidal thoughts when I never had those thoughts or misinterpreting what I was saying in psychosis. It’s really hard to understand my diagnosis when most of what was written were lies and the fact that I was assaulted inpatient by staff members before my schizophrenia label after being baker acted for 9 weeks.
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Dam well I think hospitals are pretty over dramatic compared to normal pdoc visits.
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I was misdiagnosed as having dissociative identity disorder ( formerly multiple personality disorder ) for 5 years. I would frequently ask the doctor if I really had schizophrenia. She said time and again “no, you can’t just take a pill and make it all go away!” Psychotherapy only made everything worse.
What kind of therapy? For me it was psychoanalysis that was wrong for me.
I’ve sometimes wondered if I wasn’t psychotic because I haven’t hallucinated that much. I have been delusional, though. I’ve sometimes questioned why they had to put me on 40 mg a day of Haldol at first. God, that was bad. I’ve been hospitalized over twenty times, so they definitely think something is wrong with me.