u/Timber2BohoBabe

I belong to a Disability Support group in my province.

At the last meeting, one of the coordinators said, "We also recognize self diagnosis as a valid form of diagnosis".

I don't know if this is part of a disability rights movement or something, but it made me pretty uncomfortable.

It isn't that I don't want to be inclusive, but I don't feel like self diagnosis is a evidence-based form of diagnosis. You can totally suspect you have something, or be investigating the possibility of having something, but unless you have a medical/graduate psychology degree, you don't have the expertise to definitively diagnose yourself.

Am I being unreasonable by thinking this self diagnosis support will just lead to fakers taking advantage of the support provided by the group?

We have two non-instructional days before school starts. Most of today was meetings, but we had 1.5 h to work in our classroom.

Tomorrow we have an hour and a half professional development session on a topic I regularly used to present on. Another staff member actually designed the program that the whole thing is based around. Our admin knows this.

Did they ask us to present? Nope, they brought in an "expert".

Did they excuse us from sitting through the PD session? Of course not. We are expected to be there along with everyone else.

We don't expect our students to sit through material when they have already demonstrated mastery.... But teachers don't get the same respect.

I will admit upfront that I have a bias against psychodynamic therapy, after taking part in a program that was psychodynamic heavy but also eerily similar to a popular cult known as Synanon.

Still, I noticed it seems to be favored by psychiatrists. Any particular reason why?

I've done two rounds of intensive ketamine infusions, and then I've also been getting maintenance Ketamine for a little over a year.

I always "trip" when getting Ketamine, like get completely out of it, join the universal energies, no longer understand the concept of humanity, the whole works. Sometimes this is great, sometimes it is neutral, occasionally it is a bit uncomfortable but that is rare.

This last time, it was terrifying. Like a nightmare. I just wanted it to stop. I've never had that experience before.

However, right before my session, the nurse was talking to the patient next to me about their recent suicide attempt. I was still getting comfortable and hadn't gotten my ear plugs in yet, so I heard everything.

Do you think that "negative" start could have been the cause of this horrible ketamine experience? Or do you think it was just a coincidence?

Basically my question. I noticed a lot of people have said they are diagnosed with cPTSD, but it is my understanding that the USA doesn't use the ICD11 for diagnosis, so how does that work? And will the next DSM likely have cPTSD?