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The doctor has misdiagnosed me with psychosis,what should I do?
I have been taking antidepressant medications since 2 years, OCD medicines since 2 years and antipsychosis medicines and schizophrenia medicines since 6 months. The antidepressants and OCD medicines did not help me even by 1%. I have been misdiagnosed with psychosis, as I never had a single hallucination in my life, I do not imagine or hear voices, and I do not have suspiciousness towards others. But the psychiatrist is not ready to listen to me. He told that the diagnosis of psychosis is correct. But I do not have any psychosis symptoms and never had it. It is so frustrating to be misdiagnosed and been given wrong medicines for 6 months. What should I do?
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Shyness to talk to others, public speaking fear, shyness to talk to girls and shy to ask doubts in the class. Bit of sadness in life. Poor focus and concentration in studies. And lot of stress in studies from 12th grade. Frustration.
Overwhelmed, sad, frustrated and stressed with academic challenges in college. I have failed 3 years of University. I have taken admission in BBA, Btech Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Application. I failed in all these 3 courses because I find it difficult to concentrate in studies. In studies, I feel very bored, find it very very difficult,dry and unable to manage the stress. I find it very difficult to attend all lectures and sit for even 2 hours in the classroom, because in University, I found all classes boring, I could not understand anything, I found it overwhelming. These problems have nothing common in psychosis and schizophrenia. I am otherwise a completely normal person with some academic problems.
Have you looked for help for your studies such as tutoring help that might be available through your university?
Have you ever seen a therapist or counselor?
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2 ReactionsHi!!!
I am so sorry to hear you are having this problem...Drs tend to think they are beyond reproach, which isn't true.
Could someone in your family help you with this, like getting in touch with the company? Do you have anyone who could be an advocate on your behalf?
I realize this may not be the case, and l am sorry you are feeling so unwell at this point that you are not up to fighting the battle yourself. I wish l could help more.
I can pray for you, which I do very well. Count on my prayers coming your way.
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2 ReactionsI would research the hearing voices groups that do not pathologize altered states, I think it's Finland where it started. But everywhere and online. I would also look into Shadowwork healing trauma, Somatic therapy and IFS, ( parts work with Richard Schwartz). The medical misunderstandings of western medicine have only "treated" the symptoms by numbing and slowing down the brain with drugs. The labels and the lack of understanding how the human spirit and holistic perceptions and trauma al play roles in altered states are a red flag that they truly don't know. Because there are people who have recovered and who help others get a better handle on balancing their unique selves and finding meaning from the messages, I would tend to want to listen to them over someone who read a textbook and has no lived experience. Or any definitive evidence of knowing what is at play or how to really resolve it. These things tend to happen to sensitive people, especially if they've had trauma, and at an age when going out into the world and interacting in personal relationships are starting.
That makes sense then that it has more to do with social emotional spiritual and intimacy/boundaries issues that often are ignored by psychiatry. The medications, the scary labels, that really aren't necessarily accurate or meaningful, as well as someone outside of you imposing anything on you as an "expert" of you, can often create much worse symptoms and feelings and perceptions. And maybe most importantly, they cause a person to hand over their own agency and perceptions and control. Those are the very things that increase good outcomes for integrating new awarenesses and troubling things that overwhelm us... Deferring our reality to someone who tends to be a narrow concrete thinker/rule follower can be detrimental to anyone. Psychiatry is fear-based and imposes pathology onto human behavior. Often the people drawn to the profession have unresolved issues that they either don't disclose, work on, or are conscious of. They've made some big mistakes in history and arguably are now. We fear what we don't understand and a collective culture can fear things that they aren't comfortable acknowledging openly.
In many cultures, people with connections to spirit and altered perceptions are looked to for answers and are called healers.
It can take a lot of work to work thru trauma and sort thru the mistakes of our understanding and set up internal boundaries ..and process and understand what this experience is about. But people do it.
The drugging, if done very conservatively only to make someone feel safe for a short time, may be OK. But that's not at all what the medical model used worldwide is doing. Because they rarely engage with anyone about the meaning they feel their states may be about, about traumas that attracted this, and natural ways of learning how to regulate and interact with outside people and situations, I am concerned that they do not believe that everyone has a reason for this happening, other than some "mutated gene"...that they can't find. I would search for holistic alternatives even though it's hard to find and some people negative assumptions about those. But I strongly advise not to ever go cold turkey off of any medicine, but if after you find safe, informed people who have experience with all of this, and start to think about, plan and see if other ways of getting support can strengthen you, then the possibility of slowly tapering off any medication with safe guidance may be a reasonable option.
Luckily, we are living in an age where the internet helps people find one another, and when people are admitting the damage and misdirection that they've experienced, and are finding and sharing alternatives that help them incorporate what they are feeling with similar stories of people who found answers. . If a lot of wealthy unfulfilled people are taking psychedelic retreats and mind altering substances to experience personal and spiritual insights and learning from the altered states that those give them, then maybe those states aren't necessarily pathological or weird or wrong... Maybe it's just that some people need help tuning their signals better... due to things that interfere or were intruded upon, earlier that caused wires to cross.
I like to believe that given enough support and hope, and direction ..that anyone can resolve things, as long as they take it slow and use their highest wisdom in seeking answers and healing.
It isn't always easy, but I think we all have it as a distinct possibility.
A diagnosis of psychosis is a complex one with many causes and associated symptoms. You stated you’ve been diagnosed with a few different psychiatric illnesses but you feel you’re not psychotic. This is from the ICD-10 and DSM-5 which doctors are required to use for diagnosing mental illnesses. “ ICD-10 diagnosis code F29: Unspecified psychosis not due to a substance or known physiological condition: This is a common code used when a person experiences psychosis but their condition doesn't meet the specific criteria for a more defined disorder, nor is it clearly caused by substance use or a known medical issue.” Since you state you haven’t had delusions that alone fits this category. Your medications should help you and you shouldn’t center on just issue as your cause for distrust of the doctor. Good luck with your journey to better mental health.
Could be your dr wants to keep you coming back. I know this sounds "suspicious" but unless Dr is turning patients away, they like income. And most will never admit to misdiagnosis or wrong med.