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Is "traumatized" a diagnosis? What does it mean? 2017-08-22 05:56:08 Post No. 18647333
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Is "traumatized" a diagnosis? What does it mean?
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what it says in the title.
My dad died two years ago in October. I won't go into it but it was three weeks of absolute hell.
Two months ago my mom talked me into coming with her and my little brother to a week-long "seminar" (I'm not sure about the English word for it) about families who have lost a parent to the same kind of thing. Every evening we had a short, one-on-one conversation with a therapist. At the end of the week this therapist told me that I was traumatized, and that when I got home she wanted me to get in contact with a psychiatrist.
So... Here's the problem. I have an offer for a couple of free therapy sessions because of socialism, but I'm not sure I want to go.
If I did, what would happen? Is "trauma" even a diagnosis? Would it mean anything if I get it? I just wouldn't know what to do with that information, so I don't know if I want it
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>Is "trauma" even a diagnosis?
In a sense yes. A professional can determine whether an experience had traumatic effects based on how you handled it, and no, you don't have to go into meltdown to suffer trauma.
I'd say since you have a few appointments free why not go there. Therapy can sometimes produce adverse effects but rarely, even moreso if the therapist aint a freudian (freudian psychoanalysis and therapy has the highest % of cases that actually got worse after).
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>>18647333
If you constantly felt guilty, anxious, significantly depressed or socially inhibited since your father's passing, you might be dealing with a form of post-traumatic stress disorder. It's worth going to see the psychiatrist, mostly so they can give an accurate diagnosis and continue treatment or refer you to a therapist that can treat you.
Don't turn down the free sessions. Go and hear them out. You'd be surprised how cathartic it is to talk anyone, really, about this kind of stuff.
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>>18647333
It's free anyway, why not just go and see? nothing to lose
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You can have a diagnosis as a result of trauma but trauma itself is not a diagnosis for an ongoing condition. Trauma is a temporal phenomenon that occurred during a fixed period of time.
If you've got a free lunch in front of you. eat it. At the very least, it'll be refreshing to have someone outside the family listening.
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