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First introductory post - SpiltMilk - 09-22-2016
Hi, I kinda stink at forums but here goes.
My name is ___, which I do not say for my privacy. You can call me by my username if you don't mind for now.
I am nearly six decades old. I learned two days ago that I have this. I did not learn this from a doctor nor from any professional. I figured it out on my own. There is no question in my mind at this point in life. I fit every single criteria and not just vaguely nor "maybe" nor "I might," but, "Hey, why didn't those so-called experts listen all those years?"
I was born in the 1950's and no way to I hold my own parents, who raised me very well, responsible for not finding out during my childhood. In the 1960's very little was known about this. There were difficulties at various times in my life and for these problems I sought help, but did not receive the kind of help I asked for.
I truly believe that the reason why I received the wrong help was money-driven. These "professionals" only wanted to treat what was profitable to them, what would bring in the money. I know my parents wasted most likely half a million dollars on bogus "care" that by all means, made my situation worse and put me in the unemployment line for life. My parents had no clue, they thought they were doing the right thing, and I did, too.
Then, while I was on public assistance for many years, I'd say two million dollars was spent on "care" I did not need and again, made me worse off than before. Much of the subsequent "care" consisted of patching up the boo-boos from the previous "care."
I watched my boyfriend die, and many friend die, too. Their lives shortened by drugs they didn't need, some believing the diagnoses I know now were arbitrarily given, some completely false or questionable.
In 2012 I had a turnaround. I realized everything was a mistake and I began to end the addiction I had to appointments. I stopped seeing doctors, one by one. I began to expose what had happened to me, too, the psychiatric imprisonments, the cruelties therein, the wrongful deaths, the harms that should never have happened that they claimed were "necessary care" but weren't.
The instutions I exposed retaliated in a bad way. They tried to get me locked up for good and forcibly drugged so that I would stop speaking out about the harms I had seen.
Thankfully I was able to get away before they initiated any type of court order, which would have been unwarranted and not based on anything but their desperate need to silence me.
I got a lot better once I was away from them. But still, many questions remained unanswered. Was I just an ordinary person, caught in bad luck? Was my only mistake to walk into a shrink's office and get a diagnosis? Was I just a kid with an eating disorder that got all twisted around? Somehow, that didn't quite explain why I was clumsy, why I had been fired from jobs, why I couldn't hit a ball with a bat, why I can't tolerate TV, and why...ahem...Do you guys strongly identify with Charlie Brown, too? Maybe it's my generation, but even though I'm a girl, I do!!!!
Yes, I was always picked last for the team. Were you? I knock stuff over in store aisles and bump into people and when I broke my leg (consequence of drugs I never needed, by the way) I actually barely felt it.
How many wrong diagnoses did I get? Oh.....maybe ten. Or more. I know this was so costly to my parents and to taxpayers, too. It has split my family apart and I have relatives I have barely met. Also, I have organ damage and now have to face the fact that due to treatment I didn't need, I am facing shorter life expectancy. It's a tough one to deal with. I don't mind talking about it but other people definitely do not like hearing the truth about this stuff.
My goal is to go to the media somehow and come out with my story. I believe it might help someone, or so I hope. I am 58 years old.
Where can I find well-written articles on this? Do we have a presence in human rights groups and any political organizing? How does this fit in with the ADA? As I figure, the APA won't put this into their Baloney Bible, the DSM since they aren't looking at making big money off of the diagnosis via Big Pharma anytime soon. When Pharm comes out with some poison treatment for this, the drug companies will lobby the APA and the diagnosis, lo and behold, will show up in the next DSM.
Ah, big profits......Don't become a commodity. Just take caution when the salesman calls. I've learned this.