What does all the crazy therapist speak mean?

Question

I overheard my therapist say to another doc and state social worker that I'm a post traumatic, disassociative, M D D with recurrent episodes, idealiation, and S I.
Does anyone know what all this means besides that I'm crazy.... I've tried looking it up on several sites but with little luck. I asked my therapist and she said it wasn't important. They want my parents to sign me over to the state cause of some other stuff but told me I would not go into foster care, that I'd go somewhere "special"... Kinda scary and they talk to me like I'm 5... Well, any advice would be good... thanx

Answer 1

Actually, none of this means that you're crazy.

"Post-traumatic" means that you've experienced some trauma in your past that is contributing to your current emotional state.

"Disassociative" is a specific (and normal) defense against trauma. It simply means that you are able to mentally separate the portion of yourself that you consider to be the most you from the events happening to another portion of yourself (like your physical body). "Disassociative Disorder" means that the disassociation has gone too far and is causing problems.

"MDD" is short for "Major Depressive Disorder" which has a specific set of diagnostic criteria that take too long to write out here. It is commonly referred to as "depression."

"Recurrent episodes" could refer to either recurrences of the depression, the trauma or the disassociation.

"SI" is short for "Suicidal ideation." This can be either active (e.g. you actually try or at least intend to try to kill yourself) or passive (you've thought about killing yourself).

My advice is finding a few people you can trust (e.g. either a therapist or a physician who can answer medical questions; a case-worker, counselor or pastor who can answer the nonmedical questions; a friend who can empathize with you). Even more important, depending on where you are spiritually, is building your relationship with God.

Answer 2

I am a physician and I admit that we are not careful about making things clear to patients. Post traumatic means that something caused you a great deal of distress...being a war, a broken home, a serious accident and disassociation means that you block out or cancel things in your mind because you haven't learned how to deal with them...rather like escape. Recurrent episodes means that you experience the same blocking sometimes and idealiation refers to your non-acceptance of the matter. It doesn't mean that you are 'crazy', it only means that you have problems adjusting to whatever happened. I am sure that your therapist would be embarassed to learn that she was guilty of her professional responsibility to inform you. Age is not a factor, the patient also must be aware of the planned treatment but sometimes, physicians with-hold diagnosis especially in patients with fatal illnesses...yours isn't. I think that perhaps they want to spare your parents the financial burden of therapy, and the best therapy is usually not at home. How they speak to you depends on your attitudes, if you show them that you are able to accept and understand their information, they will include you more. The sooner you come to terms with the problem, the sooner you will be on the road to a better and happier life.

Answer 3

They are saying that due to some traumatic episode or accident, your mind is damaged, causing flights of fancy and living in your own illogical version of reality.

I'd say you might be in trouble. They plan to put you into an institution and that could haunt you for the rest of your life.

Maybe you DO need treatment. You don't say what the "other stuff" is.

But you need to get a patient's rights advocate to look into your case. You're about to become a ward of the state, and lose valuable legal rights, because they DO think you're crazy, and maybe even suicidal or dangerous.

And it all hinges on your parents, what happens to you. Ask your parents to please seek second opinions on all the other shrinks, to be sure that you get an appropriate situation. Your future is at stake, sad to say.

My key, critical clue here, is that your therapists and shrinks should be explaining this to YOU, rather than just telling you it's "not important", and shuffling you through their system.

Yes, I looked at your other questions, too. You've been abused. That's no reason to think that you were at fault, nor to try to take your own life.

You can recover from this, if you get the right help. Make sure they give it to you properly.

Answer 4

I've read your other questions and truly I feel for you. Life have given you more than the average person can handle.

If I were you, I would move out on my own and seek a Lawyer who specialized in family law. Do not trust your family, sometimes family are the primary source of your destruction. In your condition, it is called "batter women syndrome" a form of mental and physical abuse, which will give you the "Legal Rights" to get emancipate from your family.

Just ask any Family Lawyer in your local phone-book, they will direct you in where to seek help. Some Lawyers will take your case free of charge.

Most family lawyers will do it for you or will let you start a payment plan. I've even know some lawyers who give their clients jobs as assistant to pay off the loan.

I truly know how your feel. The whole world seems to blame you for everything that goes wrong. It happened to me as well. I've ran away when I was 11 years old. Now I am 24, and know truly that my family is CRAZY and is not a healthy place to grow up in.

So Trust Yourself. GET OUT OF THERE.

Answer 5

MDD is Major Depressive Disorder. It doesn't sound as if your therapist was being. She should not have talked about you to others where you could hear though.

Are they talking about sending you to a group home? Do you get along with your parents? Do they treat you OK?

As your therapist what her recommendations are and ask her what EXACTLY will happen. It is unfair not to tell you what is going on. After all, she is your therapist.

Answer 6

I am sure they were just suggesting possibilities. PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) usually a result from a past experience such a sexual molestation. Disassociative can fall under many categories amnesia, fugue, identity, depersonalization etc. MDD maybe major depressive disorder. idealiation could have been ideation which you heard differently. and SI could possibly explain the previous ideation which means suicidal ideations.

Answer 7

yes it just means , some crazy crap happen in your life , which you need to learn how to recovery from,
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Answer 8

Your therapist should have treated you better than that, I'm surprised she didn't. But then again, it seems to me as though there are some therapists who are in the field of work for just one reason. It's spelled M-O-N-E-Y.

Answer 9

I think someone else may be better able to answer all of the questions you have, but I may be able to help with a little of the information you're looking for.

Just a note first: You need to be careful about trying to get information from things you overheard. Its just too easy to hear something incorrectlyl or incompletely.

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is something that people get after they've been in seriously awful situations that made them feel threatened or afraid. You can look up "Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome" or "PTSD" or something like '"PTSD in non-combat situations". Ideation just refers to something that you think up that may not be how things really are. A dissociative disorder has to do with a condition when (for lack of a more professional way to describe it) people kind of separate themselves from what's real or from who they are. You may want to look up "Dissociative Disorders" online too. "Recurrent episodes", as you can probably guess, means that there is something you're doing (mentally) that isn't a one-shot deal but that you do from time to time.

I don't want to guess about the MDD or the SI. I have a couple of ideas, but because I could be wrong on those I won't offer them.

If you look up "psychiatric disorders" you should be able to get some more information.

I can imagine how scared you must be, and I can imagine how rotten it is to be spoken to as if you're a child. (Maybe you could calmly tell the older people around you that even if you have any psychiatric condition you would appreciate being spoken to as someone capable of understanding.)

Maybe I shouldn't make the following comment because - remember - I have no way to know what the therapist's suggestion about where you go is; but in order to try to reassure you, I'd like to mention that sometimes there are programs for young people with mental health conditions where all the people are young, where they get some additional psychiatric evaluation, and maybe some medication. There are group homes that young people sometimes stay in for a while until some things get sorted out or even until they can be out on their own. Chances are, if you were told you would not go into foster care its because the therapist knows a foster mother may not have the knowledge needed to help you with whatever condition you may have.

(Don't you "love" the term "special" that they sometimes use?!!)
(I was being sarcastic there in case it didn't come out that way.)

There are times when therapists believe the only way a person can get the help they need is to be in the care of that state (for one reason or another - sometimes its even just a matter of being able to make use of state help).

If you look up PTSD you'll see that there can be dissociative disorder associated with that. You must have gone through something awful if the therapist mentioned PTSD. PTSD can be mild or it can be so severe that a person has flashbacks that involve feeling as if they're back where they once were in some awful situation.

I can imagine how scared you must be, and there is nothing that someone like me can say to you to really make you less frightened (particularly since I don't know your whole situation or you); but it would seem to me like a good idea if you could try to trust your therapist. The therapist may even just think that if you are away from your parents for a while it may be easier to figure out how much of a problem you have or how little of a problem you have. Sometimes parents are not equipped to provide the kind of feedback that someone more knowledgeable needs to figure how what your condition is or isn't.

I don't know you, but I have known enough young people in situations similar to yours to know that most of the time the therapist can be trusted and that he/she is honestly trying to help you the right way. Keep in mind that most mental health problems come from either problems with a person's brain chemistry or from bad situations they have been through; so if you have mental health problems you have a medical condition. Don't call yourself "crazy" whether or not you're joking. You have a treatable condition of some kind, and you just have to trust the therapist. Sometimes when young people are thought to have certain mental health conditions once they get out of their home situation and into one where the people know what to look for it becomes clear the young person isn't as ill as people originally believed. Give yourself a chance for that to happen too. If that doesn't happen, and it turn out you have the degree of mental illness that the therapist suspects then give yourself a chance to be treated the right way.

Try not to be too scared. Try to calmly ask the older people to give you the information you need in order to understand what you're dealing with; and if someone tells you it isn't important tell them politely that it is important to you.

It sounds to me like you're at the beginning of a nice, new, change in your life that could mean you will get the chance to feel much better. Good luck.

Answer 10

major deppresive disorder which is what i over heard my therapist say they dont tell you much hey. They just put you away and feed you full of pills. my parents signed me over to the state i ran away.cuz foster care sucks you go from one place to anouther its bull sh** You arnt crazy remeber that