A Bad Experience - Why did this happen?

Hi @Aunica, welcome to the forum.

First up, in that situation, I personally would seek out another psychiatrist. That's not to say we should shift from one to the other too quickly. I saw one psychiatrist on and off for 13 years. One or two I've only seen once and that was enough to tell me it wasn't going to work. I think there's a bit of human chemistry involved. We need to be able to trust this person. The psychiatrist you are seeing seems to be invalidating your lived experience of diagnosed mental health problems and saying things that don't seem accurate to what many of us know about social anxiety and depression (of course it can be long lasting!).

In relation to your thoughts that you have multiple personalities, you may be interested to read this recent discussion about living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (which used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder). What you describe is rather different to the experiences described in that thread. You may or may not have this condition. It does need a psychiatrist to be able to diagnose it, which seems all the more reason to find one who you have more faith in.

Hope this helps. Kind wishes.

I have said this many times on this Sane site,if you aren't happy find someone who you are comfortable with.From my experiences,their qualifications mean stuff all if they can't control their,attitudes ,egos and personal judgements.As a 22 year old you are brave to acknowledge that you know something isn't quite right ,for your future find someone you feel is helping you.As for depression I have had mine for since I was a teenager and I'm now in my forties.She sounds like she lacks insight and got no personal experiences which you need to be able to have empathy,a strong element to "help" someone.

@Mazarita Thank you for the warm welcome and yes, I agree on your first point. You should switch from one psychiatrist to another too often. This would be my third and I have noticed she wasn’t like the other two. My second psychiatrist I really liked because she would listen and work through it with me, I also felt a good connection with her.

As to the MPD or DID I was talking about, I do believe it’s not full blown personalities. Rather, I believe the psychologist was right in it being more of a sublime personality disorder. These moods I can get into are pretty intense, so it can be like really angry or really sad. It’s just never really a small feeling when I have these emotional states take over.

@utopia I’m happy you agree that her diagnosis was misinformed, I found it a little weird and the fact she more brushed off these problems I’m having as well.

“Is she saying you have Borderline Personality Disorder or another Personality Disorder (which are MI's) ?”

She never said what I have, rather just said it was my personality to be that way. It wasn’t really an explanation.

“Did she give you a diagnosis? Or did she simply dismiss you of having a mental illness? Did she make any changes to your medications?”

I didn’t get a diagnosis but she did recommend a new medication to take for the anxiety and depression. I didn’t get much out of that session at all.

@Former-Member What was weird was she seemed like she had experience but just didn’t have the gentle touch when dealing with people like me. I’m not sure why my GP would recommend her but I’m going to try and find someone else.

@Bellaswan Thank you for your concern, I’m doing okay. Just recounting things like this is saddening.

@Aunica, sounds like the second psychiatrist was the best for you. Glad to hear you won't be going back to the one you've been seeing and will try finding another. The psychiatrist I have now, I found by googling for psychiatrists in the local area. Then I rang around to find out which of them was willing to bulk-bill me (a necessity for me). After that I did as much research as I could about them on the net. Then picked one, took that name to my GP and she was happy to refer me to them. It has worked out very well and I've now been seeing him monthly to manage my bipolar for about two years.

With your psychologist suggesting you may have a condition that has a relation to DID, it is surprising the psychiatrist didn't give it more credence. Sorry you have to go through such intense anger and sadness feelings. Hope the responses here have been helpful in easing your understandable sadness about being treated that way.

I would definitely find a new psychiatrist. She didn't really try to listen to what you had to say, just told you you were wrong. Regardless of whether her reasoning for what she said was correct or not, she should have listened more. You can find a better psychiatrist.