Q: In 2007, I was diagnosed with Bipolar I and PTSD from years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in childhood and early adulthood. Today I saw a new psychiatrist and she added adult ADD/ADHD and dissociative disorder to my diagnoses. Is it possible or common for psychiatrists to miss or combine some diagnoses/symptoms in [...]
‘PTSD’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist
The following questions are related to ‘PTSD’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Psychiatrist’s Misdiagnosis or Just a Changed Diagnosis?
Do I Have Two Personalities? I Don’t Remember Being Aggressive
Complex PTSD — How to Deal With Extreme Intolerance of Loud Sounds
Alcoholism and Abuse at Home, Now Depression and PTSD?
Q: For some time now, everything seems to have been falling apart. My father left when I was four and my mother remarried a few years later to my stepfather. My stepfather had an alcohol problem: every time he drank, he verbally and physically abused my mother, even after my mother became pregnant with his [...]
Helped Clean Up After a Suicide
Differential Diagnosis: Simple ADHD Inattentiveness and Dissociation
Q: When I was 15, I was diagnosed with ADHD, but a traumatic memory from my childhood resurfaced recently and I started to look into dissociation. I was wondering how you can tell the difference between the two? My forgetfulness often extends into amnesia: my girlfriend will frequently ask me about something we did or [...]
