Posted by kerria on September 13, 2005, at 10:35:46
In reply to Re: When do you medicate for PTSD (warning: violence) » SLS, posted by delna on September 13, 2005, at 2:18:17
> ....I agree, but we have had every intervention possible- short of kidnapping her! No one can talk sense into her. Its like she is all confused and really a diffferent person. Its scary because she was always such a stable and sensible person. It feels like something about her thinking is really pathological. She is aware of the abuse cycle but all this is at an intellectual level.
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> If this is not to be, then perhaps a professional psychiatric diagnosis by an M.D. would help sway her judgment
> ....I was hoping that a psychiatrist diagnosing her with something would convince her that her thinking is not rational and in her control. Its a desperate measure right now.
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> Thanks so much for your help.If your friend really is a different person because of trauma- childhood trauma and she had alters- ones that could live with her a. husband and totally not remember the a. and she received a medical diagnosis of it-
THEN she would have to deal with the knowledge of the earlier trauma also. And the different parts of her and all the personal trauma of being separated.
Getting a diagnosis and living in the effects of it doesn't always have a good outcome. If she doesn't want to go to a MD there's a reason possibly that it isn't a good thing for her.Knowing about a dx of DID (complex PTSD with other personalities) doesn't always have a good outcome. A greater percentage of persons with DID commit suicide than with any other mental disorder- including depression.
It carries a heavy weight- years of therapy that is very expensive and don't always help. Finding therapists to treat it is very difficult also. There is no medicine to treat it.
Her entire life may fall apart.This sounds like my life. Everyone was trying to get me to live away from a. husband and then i found a dx of DID. i still live with the h. and now have a ruined life that therapy and meds can't help also.
Unless your friend SEEKS out a psychiatrist, i think you shouldn't press it. Psychiatrists and others have the ability to diagnose but not the ability to help. Treatment doesn't = healing or even helping the situation she's in. She might be worse off receiving a dx on top of everything and made less capable instead of more capable to leave him.
Keep being there for your friend. That's the best help. Hopefully she can become stong enough to leave h.
Take care,
kerria
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