Too many people are misdiagnosed and overmedicated.

It infuriates me how many people with complex trauma are misdiagnosed with borderline, bipolar, major depression or generalized anxiety ECT. Then given a different medication for each one of those different diagnoses.

Complex trauma is like taking different symptoms from each one of those and rolling them all into one clusterfuck of a diagnosis.

I think medication can help. It helps me to get out of bed, shower, show up to work (barely) and try to resemble something like an actual human being. That's it. It doesn't help with the major major symptoms complex trauma causes. That takes intensive therapy and hard work.

My sister who is 22 swears she's "so borderline" "so manic right now"(she's never been manic a day in her life). She's convinced she has BPD, Bipolar, depression, anxiety and God knows what else. She's on 10 different medications that she doesn't need that affect her negatively. I've tried telling her a million times since we grew up in the same household (I'm much older, 37) that she has complex trauma. That's what it is. That's why you're suffering and not getting better because you're trying to heal from something you don't have. You're not "so borderline" you're severely traumatized.

I don't know. It pisses me off and why aren't the doctors asking about what kind of lives we've lived thus far that got us into the seat across from them. They just ask to list symptoms and then diagnose you based on that. It's literally mind blowing.