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What does all the crazy therapist speak mean? |
Issue I overheard my therapist say to another doc and state social worker that I'm a post traumatic, disassociative, M D D with recurrent episodes, idealiation, and S I. Does anyone know what all this means besides that I'm crazy.... I've tried looking it up on several sites but with little luck. I asked my therapist and she said it wasn't important. They want my parents to sign me over to the state cause of some other stuff but told me I would not go into foster care, that I'd go somewhere "special"... Kinda scary and they talk to me like I'm 5... Well, any advice would be good... thanx Best Tip Actually, none of this means that you're crazy. "Post-traumatic" means that you've experienced some trauma in your past that is contributing to your current emotional state. "Disassociative" is a specific (and normal) defense against trauma. It simply means that you are able to mentally separate the portion of yourself that you consider to be the most you from the events happening to another portion of yourself (like your physical body). "Disassociative Disorder" means that the disassociation has gone too far and is causing problems. "MDD" is short for "Major Depressive Disorder" which has a specific set of diagnostic criteria that take too long to write out here. It is commonly referred to as "depression." "Recurrent episodes" could refer to either recurrences of the depression, the trauma or the disassociation. "SI" is short for "Suicidal ideation." This can be either active (e.g. you actually try or at least intend to try to kill yourself) or passive (you've thought about killing yourself). My advice is finding a few people you can trust (e.g. either a therapist or a physician who can answer medical questions; a case-worker, counselor or pastor who can answer the nonmedical questions; a friend who can empathize with you). Even more important, depending on where you are spiritually, is building your relationship with God. Source(s): DSM-IV (psychiatry text) 1-888-NEED-HIM (spiritual reference) Others I've read your other questions and truly I feel for you. Life have given you more than the average person can handle. If I were you, I would move out on my own and seek a Lawyer who specialized in family law. Do not trust your family, sometimes family are the primary source of your destruction. In your condition, it is called "batter women syndrome" a form of mental and physical abuse, which will give you the "Legal Rights" to get emancipate from your family. Just ask any Family Lawyer in your local phone-book, they will direct you in where to seek help. Some Lawyers will take your case free of charge. Most family lawyers will do it for you or will let you start a payment plan. I've even know some lawyers who give their clients jobs as assistant to pay off the loan. I truly know how your feel. The whole world seems to blame you for everything that goes wrong. It happened to me as well. I've ran away when I was 11 years old. Now I am 24, and know truly that my family is CRAZY and is not a healthy place to grow up in. So Trust Yourself. GET OUT OF THERE. But do not run away from your family just yet, You need to have a plan. I'm a boy and had friends that will let me live with them. It's a BAD idea for a girl to run away with nowhere to live. Seek out a safe place for help, something like a church. Get a job and learn to depend on yourself. I am sure they were just suggesting possibilities. PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) usually a result from a past experience such a sexual molestation. Disassociative can fall under many categories amnesia, fugue, identity, depersonalization etc. MDD maybe major depressive disorder. idealiation could have been ideation which you heard differently. and SI could possibly explain the previous ideation which means suicidal ideations. They are saying that due to some traumatic episode or accident, your mind is damaged, causing flights of fancy and living in your own illogical version of reality. I'd say you might be in trouble. They plan to put you into an institution and that could haunt you for the rest of your life. Maybe you DO need treatment. You don't say what the "other stuff" is. But you need to get a patient's rights advocate to look into your case. You're about to become a ward of the state, and lose valuable legal rights, because they DO think you're crazy, and maybe even suicidal or dangerous. And it all hinges on your parents, what happens to you. Ask your parents to please seek second opinions on all the other shrinks, to be sure that you get an appropriate situation. Your future is at stake, sad to say. My key, critical clue here, is that your therapists and shrinks should be explaining this to YOU, rather than just telling you it's "not important", and shuffling you through their system. Yes, I looked at your other questions, too. You've been abused. That's no reason to think that you were at fault, nor to try to take your own life. You can recover from this, if you get the right help. Make sure they give it to you properly. I am a physician and I admit that we are not careful about making things clear to patients. Post traumatic means that something caused you a great deal of distress...being a war, a broken home, a serious accident and disassociation means that you block out or cancel things in your mind because you haven't learned how to deal with them...rather like escape. Recurrent episodes means that you experience the same blocking sometimes and idealiation refers to your non-acceptance of the matter. It doesn't mean that you are 'crazy', it only means that you have problems adjusting to whatever happened. I am sure that your therapist would be embarassed to learn that she was guilty of her professional responsibility to inform you. Age is not a factor, the patient also must be aware of the planned treatment but sometimes, physicians with-hold diagnosis especially in patients with fatal illnesses...yours isn't. I think that perhaps they want to spare your parents the financial burden of therapy, and the best therapy is usually not at home. How they speak to you depends on your attitudes, if you show them that you are able to accept and understand their information, they will include you more. The sooner you come to terms with the problem, the sooner you will be on the road to a better and happier life. |
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