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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 366827" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>Then maybe the problem is just the general public's assumption that an anxiety diagnosis automatically means a person is irrational.</p><p></p><p>I didn't dispute his diagnosis in my letter- I was just questioning it myself. He didn't say I had panic disorder (which is what you described in your walmart example), or paranoia. He recommends therapy for depression and anxiety and medications for familial tremors. I wouldn't have had an issue with that either except he says court ordering it and monitoring by the courts to get it "might motivate me more". Ha! I did dispute that. He concluded that based on things he was wrong about and I don't know if that's because he didn't write certain things in his notes and then didn't remember by the time he was actually writing the report or what. But the things like leaving out I'd sought treatment for these issues before (even though during the evaluation he said I was telling him specifics about techniques taught in therapy for coping with anxiety so he kknew I was telling the truth), I was already intending to get a therapist thru VA (apparently he didn't get the fact that there is a required application process), and assuming things...well, I don't know. He got a lot of other things wrong too. He mentioned my bro when talking about my early childhood then turned around and said I had never had siblings until my teen years. Obviously, both those statements can't be true. The letter was primarily to clarify things like that.</p><p></p><p>I did say I was not willing to take medications for familial tremors in the letter though. For one thing, I've never known anyone who's tried medications get rid of them that way. He said medications "might help reduce" them and others might be interpreting them as anxiety symptoms being worse then what they are. Well, since there is no way that they caused or justify difficult child's delinquency, I'm just not willing to take them based on his conclusion that they might help and the issue is that others might be interpreting it anxiety. </p><p></p><p>Also, I said if the courts determined that living with me was the cause of difficult child's delinquency, then I would support his placement in a different home as long as it was an appropriate and safe guardian because reinforcing to difficult child that I'm going to be blamed for his behavior causes more problems between us, makes it harder for me to parent him effectively, and I want a resolution as quickly as possible for him. That's not the first time I've said that although it will be the first time this judge has heard it.</p><p></p><p>Where this gets even more screwy and what keeps it going around in a circle is that this stuff always leads them back to family therapy. Okay- that's where I started. When difficult child first became a difficult child, I started us seeing a family therapist- he told me to take difficult child to a psychiatrist. And we've been in this frreaking revolving door ever since. LOL!</p><p></p><p>He talked about there being extensive family history of depression and anxiety (true- it's not just me), so it will be interesting to see if the courts people remain firm that difficult child doesn't have his own MH issues. How long can they convince themselves that everyone in the family has been MI except my bro and difficult child and they are completely healthy and unscathed?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 366827, member: 3699"] Then maybe the problem is just the general public's assumption that an anxiety diagnosis automatically means a person is irrational. I didn't dispute his diagnosis in my letter- I was just questioning it myself. He didn't say I had panic disorder (which is what you described in your walmart example), or paranoia. He recommends therapy for depression and anxiety and medications for familial tremors. I wouldn't have had an issue with that either except he says court ordering it and monitoring by the courts to get it "might motivate me more". Ha! I did dispute that. He concluded that based on things he was wrong about and I don't know if that's because he didn't write certain things in his notes and then didn't remember by the time he was actually writing the report or what. But the things like leaving out I'd sought treatment for these issues before (even though during the evaluation he said I was telling him specifics about techniques taught in therapy for coping with anxiety so he kknew I was telling the truth), I was already intending to get a therapist thru VA (apparently he didn't get the fact that there is a required application process), and assuming things...well, I don't know. He got a lot of other things wrong too. He mentioned my bro when talking about my early childhood then turned around and said I had never had siblings until my teen years. Obviously, both those statements can't be true. The letter was primarily to clarify things like that. I did say I was not willing to take medications for familial tremors in the letter though. For one thing, I've never known anyone who's tried medications get rid of them that way. He said medications "might help reduce" them and others might be interpreting them as anxiety symptoms being worse then what they are. Well, since there is no way that they caused or justify difficult child's delinquency, I'm just not willing to take them based on his conclusion that they might help and the issue is that others might be interpreting it anxiety. Also, I said if the courts determined that living with me was the cause of difficult child's delinquency, then I would support his placement in a different home as long as it was an appropriate and safe guardian because reinforcing to difficult child that I'm going to be blamed for his behavior causes more problems between us, makes it harder for me to parent him effectively, and I want a resolution as quickly as possible for him. That's not the first time I've said that although it will be the first time this judge has heard it. Where this gets even more screwy and what keeps it going around in a circle is that this stuff always leads them back to family therapy. Okay- that's where I started. When difficult child first became a difficult child, I started us seeing a family therapist- he told me to take difficult child to a psychiatrist. And we've been in this frreaking revolving door ever since. LOL! He talked about there being extensive family history of depression and anxiety (true- it's not just me), so it will be interesting to see if the courts people remain firm that difficult child doesn't have his own MH issues. How long can they convince themselves that everyone in the family has been MI except my bro and difficult child and they are completely healthy and unscathed? [/QUOTE]
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