klmno
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The evaluator used to be a psychiatric in a military hospital. We had a 2 1/2 hour talk. He said he knew I was telling the truth or I wouldn't know the things I was telling him. He is giving me a diagnosis of generalized anxiety and depression and mentioning PTSD but saying he thinks that basicly went away after receiving my treatment at a military hospital. (Although I told him I thought some of it had come back starting when GAL questioned me in detail about my abuse as a child in court.) He's including that I am currently trying to get services thru the VA. He was knowledgable of the approaches used in therapy in the military at the time period I was in and so picked up pretty quick and I said TG because every other outpatient therapist looks befuddled by this and I can't understand them either.
He said I had come across to them at the courts as a paranoid personality. Well, then it became obvious to me that MST guy had lied to me again because I said "oh- I have this stuff from the military- do you need it?" He said no, that he wouldn't use something that old for a current evaluation and he found me credible and it didn't seem that anything else might be involed so he's not ordering any more testing. Then, he asked why I didn't go thru this last year and I explained about the MMPI being ordered without an interview and the concerns about a mis-diagnosis. And that my psychiatric said he would need to know childhood trauma and current stresses. He said he agreed. I said then why did MST guy tll me I would only get the written MMPI. He said I must have misunderstood MST guy. OK, I know I didn't- these people just have way too much faith in the credibility of those working in the courts- not the judges but the services unit.
I told him I wass really happy that someone they'd listen to can finally tell them that I am not the sociopath that they have feared I was. He laughed.
Then, I said are you sure you don't need anything from military and he said yes and I asked if would would let MST guy know that because MST guy had originally said they wantetd my whole service recoord. He said that didn't sound right and I said really, he did. He said MST guy would know better than that and would never say something like that. So he's going to ask MST guy and I'm wondering if he'll lie. It wouldn't be the first time he has. I'm starting to think this really is just boiling down to the ones who work together in a clique at the courts keeping the higher ups snowed about what they are really like.
He said I had come across to them at the courts as a paranoid personality. Well, then it became obvious to me that MST guy had lied to me again because I said "oh- I have this stuff from the military- do you need it?" He said no, that he wouldn't use something that old for a current evaluation and he found me credible and it didn't seem that anything else might be involed so he's not ordering any more testing. Then, he asked why I didn't go thru this last year and I explained about the MMPI being ordered without an interview and the concerns about a mis-diagnosis. And that my psychiatric said he would need to know childhood trauma and current stresses. He said he agreed. I said then why did MST guy tll me I would only get the written MMPI. He said I must have misunderstood MST guy. OK, I know I didn't- these people just have way too much faith in the credibility of those working in the courts- not the judges but the services unit.
I told him I wass really happy that someone they'd listen to can finally tell them that I am not the sociopath that they have feared I was. He laughed.
Then, I said are you sure you don't need anything from military and he said yes and I asked if would would let MST guy know that because MST guy had originally said they wantetd my whole service recoord. He said that didn't sound right and I said really, he did. He said MST guy would know better than that and would never say something like that. So he's going to ask MST guy and I'm wondering if he'll lie. It wouldn't be the first time he has. I'm starting to think this really is just boiling down to the ones who work together in a clique at the courts keeping the higher ups snowed about what they are really like.