omg what

[lesbido]

"PTSD isn't really a disorder, do you know what that is? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It's a Mental Illness. I've had PTSD, I've been in a car accident."-career coordinator for the developmentally disabled

And I loooooove how he assumed I didn't know what I was diagnosed with because I have Tourette's/OCD/RAD (but, no, wait, I wasn't born with

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[katmoonshaker]

::head:laptop:: As someone with PTSD I'd happily loan you the Teenage Mutant Ninja Kitty Horde to really give him PTSD. ::glares:: Oddly enough, I'm not familiar with RAD, please enlighten me! (Of course, it could be that we covered it in my BA+ in Psych but I have fibro & take a gazillion brain mush meds so...).

[lesbido]

Reactive Attachment Disorder, it's kind of a "newly discovered but always aware it was a problem and growing" disorder. Commonly occurs in adolescents when they are pulled out of their comfort zones too often and too early in their development. Usually a massive change, like um, moving across states, changing schools, divorce, sometimes, depending on how much of it the child is exposed to, often and repeatedly. It creates low impulse control, paranoia, "attention-seeking," things related to cognitive disorder like lack of empathy and can lead to psychopathy

[lesbido]

Oh and she was also like, "Some guy who pretended to be your friend tried to rape you like 4 years ago, you just have to get over it."

.head.desk.rage.eye-twitch.now.

[katmoonshaker]

I don't know if this is true about her "credibility", she did have lots of degrees from many different schools, all on display in her office. This is just what my current shrinks have said.

Trust your gut & your pdoc. Just because someone has managed to graduate from many different schools says NADA about how good they are. A diploma doesn't tell you what their grades were when they graduated. The fact that no one wants to be their patient however speaks volumes!! Thanks for the info on RAD!!

[quiet000001]

As someone else with PTSD, I will loan support troops.

(I. Just. WHAT? Also, I do not think you can actually say "I had PTSD" as in, past tense, because it is my understanding that, with current treatments, while we can help people become really pretty good at managing things to minimize the experience of PTSD, no one who actually studies PTSD feels that management is the same as 'curing' it. So you might manage it very very well indeed, and effectively never experience any significant disruption from it again, after treatment, but you STILL HAVE PTSD - because the underlying issue with brain chemistry or whatever it is exactly that happens in folks with PTSD is still there, so there's always a possibility of it being triggered again by an event or experience.)

[lesbido]

Yeah, lol, shortly after I couldn't speak, a friend of mine read something to the extent of "There is no exact cure for PTSD but it can be treated with therapy and various coping mechanisms throughout life" off Wikipedia.

By then however our class was over and we got to go for Thanksgiving vacation and he didn't have to come up with anything to defend his argument.

I would rather continue job searching because it's very hard to think about taking a vacation, or even having internet access, when your family is struggling to put food on the table, but the rest of the program needs a break and this career coordinator has a whole trip planned for the weekend.