When new health professionals talk to me they immediately think its trauma. Then they get to know me and think its sz. Anyone else experienced this?
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Yes, I have.
This is why I think it pays to stick with one pdoc and one therapist who knows you and whom you trust and not go hopping from one pdoc/therapist to another. Cause everytime you switch psychiatry or therapy providers, you risk medication and/or diagnosis changes.
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I moved cities so unfortunately I had to change docs. But when they first met me @SkinnyMe they were like oh your bpd and you have trauma and then I opened up to my nurse last week and she is like oh sounds like you have a psychotic illness like wtf?
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Many doctors I have seen have different opinions about me. Some doctors don’t think I meet criteria for sz. Some think it’s sz. Some think it’s PTSD.
At this point it’s psychotic depression.
A lot of mental health professionals don’t keep in mind that schizophrenia isn’t the only thing with a psychotic aspect. Schizoaffective, bipolar, borderline, even autism, can have aspects of psychosis.
if you put yourself in the place of the professionals you see also that it’s not always so easy to diagnose right, especially if they don’t know you that long yet cause they missing a lot of information and as the information gets filled in over time they might change your diagnosis. It happened to me too
My diagnosis never changed and I saw 8 psychiatrists. I think its because new psychiatrists have access to my previous medical records and previous psychosis’s logs.
Yeah the one before my last pdoc said there is no way it is sz. but then I had another psychosis and now they working towards schizoaffective or bipolar as a diagnosis…
This is my story too.
Many psychiatrists are confused.
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yea if they have all that information from doctors before them then it’s unlikely that the diagnosis changes i think… but i can imagine if the pdoc doesn’t have all that information that it might be hard to get the right diagnosis from the start.
It’s why i hated that in the psych wards it was different pdocs than the one you usually have cause they have to learn to get to know you and in the psych ward the visits were always a lot shorter than the visit at your regular pdoc.
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A lot of the symptoms overlap with various diagnoses. That makes it difficult to have one perfect diagnosis
I don’t trust my new pdoc.
He said to me that diagnoses change.
If my diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia is changed, I will be absolutely furious with the mental health system. That is effectively telling me I have been taking Anti-Psychotics for nothing for years - just because this new guy comes in and changes what other doctors have all been very straight with me in regards to diagnosis
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