Vent: I just want the right treatment

Hey @swift1, thank you for your post and for sharing your experiences with the community!

It sounds like you have been through a lot and a tough time with your mental health experiences. You are demonstrating your resilience and strength by reaching out to your peers here on the Forums. It takes courage to be vulnerable and share deeply about what we experience.'

There are some other great places you can connect with the community, and I will add a previous post here so you can find them if you like: Looking for a space to connect with others? Find a... - SANE Forums

Thanks again for sharing with the community!

Take care

RiverSeal

I love how you put it @swift1 in that you'll smash life outta the park!

I feel that's me.

I was diagnosed with biploar, and after taking meds for years, I was told I didn't have bipolar and it was purely bpd with cptsd. Duh? No wonder the meds didn't help!

Long story short, I had depression and anxiety too. Once these were under control with meds, I could then focus on therapy for my BPD.

It WAS hard work. I was exhausting. I'm not going to lie. I don't think it necessarily needed a name/label/diagnosis to work with the things that were hindering my functioning. However, getting the BPD diagnosis was sorta liberating in that there was a name for what I was experiencing.

Now, like you said, I'm totally kicking goals and life is smashing. Yet it doesn't take away how hard it was to maintain the lifelong changes that were needed for me to get to where I am today.

If you can continue to work with whatever you want to change, I wonder if it's enough for you to fly?

Or, alternatively, have you told your psych that you just want clarity and a clear diagnosis so you can get on with life?

Thank you! I reached out to my psych about diagnosis because of your comment and she gave me a clear route to take for both ADHD and BPD. I had no idea that psychologists could diagnosis BPD. I’m now putting a hold on the trauma therapy and starting DBT group work while my medication stabilises. And I’m going to shop around for a psychiatrist to do the ADHD/ASD assessment.

Thanks again. I haven’t met anyone with CPTSD who has done active recovery before. I don’t feel so alone now.

Good luck