Worse Psych Advice you've had:

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Yes, that happened to me.

It happened to another woman on WP, too. She was the one that told me when I complained about what my shrink did. She said it happened to her and two other women in the ward in the hospital she was in about 10 years ago. We really are a thorn in their sides, you know.

Merle

Add me to the "misdiagnosed borderline" list.

What makes me really mad is that there's not even any sense in how they treat people who actually are borderline. How on earth do they expect them to recover if they treat them like annoying infants?!

I was told "you have no emotional skin!" "look at you, you cry for the slightest reasons!"
"goodness, I though you had more moral 'glue' to hold you together, but you are all over the place, get a grip on yourself!"

or even more, "you just can't TREAT people like that!" when I am being treated like that by them! I try to point it out to them - but- well. . . they are already insulted, or what ever.

I think we hijacked the thread, my appologies to the OP.

Merle

My old shrink said to me...."You can't keep whining about your anxiety, you better learn to deal with it.". Needless to say, I don't see him anymore. He's lucky I'm not violent, because he was very close to getting destroyed that day.

Add me to the 'misdiagnosed as borderline pd' list. Also to the 'misdiagnosed as schizotypal pd' list and the 'misdiagnosed as psychotic' list.

Basically I'm a clincally unstable, pathologically asocial depressive with a dangerously loose grip on reality.

The professionals, they get me down.

I was never really diagnosed with anything other than clinical depression.

While seeing a therapist for my severe affection and intimacy issues with my then BF, she told me to "go for a nice long energising walk every morning"......In the middle of winter at 6am in the mornings???
I always imagine her giving the same advice to every patient, as if its the only solution she knows

Me four, including Callista in the lineup.

Then later, another psychiatrist added Narcissistic PD traits to my dx because I had the nerve to take an interest in what manner of therapy would be most beneficial to me. Specifically my declaration that the group therapy the mental health center had me in for borderlines wasn't addressing my issues - that what I really needed was individual therapy targeted at improving my self-esteem rather than learning how to play well with others. His reaction was to write in my file that I "presented with a strong sense of entitlement..." (I got my file because I moved to another state and requested it for my records. Fascinating and maddening reading)

Well, let's see. The mental health center was presented, advertised, marketed as a "service to the community." It was a subsidiary of the state mental health system. As a citizen of that state, I was certainly entitled to care. And where is it written that 'the patient' should have no say in their own treatment?

I knocked heads again with that same shrink about what he meant by my drug misuse. "Ah. So if it's misuse, then there is a use, eh doc?" He scribbled something in his pad and then tried to correct himself, saying that any use was misuse and that in fact I had a substance abuse problem. I tried to point out to him that my average useage of an ounce of cannabis over a period of 2 years hardly constituted dependency. Still, because of my honesty about that and about having gone a bit wild with my beer consumption the first year I was of legal drinking age, I got "poly-substance dependency" added to my file, even though at the time of seeing him my alcohol consumption averaged a couple of glasses of wine per week.

Honesty is not the best policy with the mental health establishment. But in some things I guess I'm a slow learner because the next time I sought services some 10 years later for panic attacks, what I wanted was something I could take as needed. In a rational world, the fact that I know what works for me and what doesn't (most of it didn't) due to decades of being used as a pharmaceutical lab rat by mental health services should not be taken as an indication that I'm a junkie hunting for my next fix. However, on demonstrating my extensive knowledge of psychiatric meds (I'm an expert on everything they've given me), it was determined I was a risk for abuse and so all they were willing to give me was cymbalta - an absolutely nightmarish drug that i'd have to take daily.

The hell with that. I sorta lost my cool at that point in the interview and wanted to tell them how mistaken they were about my motives and my methods, but the words didn't come. So I just walked out. Haven't been to mental health services for a year now, and wasn't planning to go anywhere near them for the rest of my life, but now that I'm just sure I'm an Autist of some sort or another, I HAVE to know, so on May 19th, once again I venture into the belly of the beast. Though it's an autism dedicated facility, so I might stand a better chance of being properly diagnosed.for once in my life.

I think I'm going to have to address the slanderous garbage in my file about me being a some kind of drug addict, though.

Limiting my intenet usage. Seriously, I told them that this was the only way how I could communicate with others, that I was completely isolated until I found the internet and especially IRC chats and their reaction is to say that I am an internet addict and have to limit it to 1 hour -- per week. Fortunately this was only kept up 2 weeks. I never felt that isolated before and since.

Walks aren't bad advice. They're not a magic solution but they are relaxing for many people, like a hot cup of tea or a good book. Just edit to "the warmest part of the day".

Well, I'm not sure this was the worst thing. I'd have to give that some thought. A therapist did say, when I said that I felt that creepy men were drawn to me, "That's entirely possible."

That puts a woman with PTSD at ease.

I was told by a hospital psychologist (prior to AS diagnosis) that my extreme difficulties in socializing and communicating with people was just because I had been an only child.

One of my highschool friends is an only child, he had great difficulty with writing to the point that his special ed people were reteaching him how to write in highschool. That was his only disability. He had significantly less trouble socially than I did. Only child syndrome is not as real as people think it is...

Why weren't they giving him typing lessons?

Actually, they gave him a laptop to use for all his school work, and were doing this on the side to try to help him be able to do written work.