Getting tested for PTSD?

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How would a person get tested to see if he officially has PTSD/ could be diagnosed with it? I have certainly had some major traumas in my life , and I certainly imagine I could be said to have been scarred by them .
What kind of outfit would you go to to be tested for that? Perhaps it would help, to have an official certification...

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

There is no "test" for PTSD. It's diagnosed primarily on the basis of symptoms and history. I agree that you have plenty of history with trauma, and this may have resulted in a style of living that causes you to jump from one situation to another and to sometimes reject help that is well intended. The thing you have to ask yourself, and that any treatment professional would wonder too, is whether at this point in your life you can benefit by therapy for PTSD. A concern would be whether that would distract you from taking care of your physical health needs which are pretty major.

You would go to a psychologist or psychiatrist for this diagnosis as for any other.

My therapist diagnosed me with PTSD after a few conversations and me filling out a few self-report forms. It was way simpler than getting my ASD diagnosis. My therapist is paid for by Medicaid, do you have that? Maybe you can find someone who takes it in your area. How were you diagnosed with ASD? Or did that happen when you were a child?

...Frankly ---- for one, I cry more or less instantly when I think of having been denied uni - sleepwear college . But, to a certain level, my tears about that rather stand in for tears about the rape and about, this is perhaps a bigger factor in f*****g me up, what I call the Thorazine and Mellaril in my sig . That and whatever other psychoactive drugs J was forced to take, which I believe fucmed me up . Both during the lengthy time I was involuntarily hospitalized starting when I was 2p and in shorter hospitaljsations afterwards, I was forced this f*****g goddamn psychoactive medications and I.believe they really f****d me up . There's, symbolically, having my 21st birthday in a state mental hospital too . If I have to be approved by a shrink to get the PTSD title - I kind of hate all shrinks because of what they did to me . However, perhaps I'd have to deal with one to get the " PTSD " title. Maybe such a tie, added on to all that I have, could get .me a nice place/room? Maybe deal with a psych, hold my nose, to get that ?

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I'd say your past history with being given those meds and your current severe medical problems should already qualify you for a care facility. But whatever you get probably isn't going to be much better or different than what you had in Patterson.

I used to work as a social worker and helped many homeless people, all disabled in some way, to find housing. There was never a time when a PTSD diagnosis made a difference in who got housing and who didn't. I think I saw in other threads that you're on the section 8 waitlist? That's the program that I helped people with. There were certain "preferences" which meant that those who were in more dire need got housed before those whose situations were less critical. Homelessness was always at the top of the preferences list, and directly below that was disability. It never specified what kind or how many, just that if you're disabled, you get the preference. Unless you think your PTSD is contributing to your current difficulties with finding a place to live, if it were me, I wouldn't put getting the diagnosis at the top of my priorities list.

I hope you get back to social work some day, Trekker.

You would be very valuable. Because you know how it feels to feel marginalized.

...I must say that there's a certain sad irony , if that's the phrase, in the comment made by the poster immediately below my last post - In his tendency to state that something like what I nkled in Patterson is OK/anyway, the best I can hope for...He accepts my largument that the tons of psychoactive medications I was forced to take in 80s and 90s. ducked me up - According to The Powers That Be that forced me to take them, they were great, I needed to take more of them and not question them , at most, if there was any problem...it was because I wasn't taking the right pill/mixture, and the next one they pushed on me would be perfect ! The Osychaitric-Industrial Complex has never come to me and said " I'm sorry, we were wro g ". I"m really crying now .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...I wasn't criticizing you or angry at you for what you said . You were giving your observation.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...Now that I think of it, I'm. not precisely sure if you meant that the lsychkacti as that were forced on me in the past f****d me up enough. that, in addition to my physical difficulties. the effect on me of those .eds was an additional factor that makes me cars-facility fodder - Or if you mea t the fact that J was considered not well enough by The Powers That Be (1980 - so many years ago :cry) to be forced to take them would still, all of these years later be seen as " proof " of my care facility fodder-Ness.
If it was the first, and TPTB now state those psychoactive we
rugs weren't good for me...Welm, it's what they thought - a dmmnd acted on then.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...The crying over not having gone to I I (and wishing to - and sad when it seemed it wouldn't happen - was partly a stand-in for sadness about the rape and the psycoactives and the turning 21 in a state mental hospital. J"'ll always be a piece of raped meat, garbage...at least one level. J guess the effects.if the Thorazine, will never be reversed, either. But it seemed like some sort of you g to uni. some make-up for what I missed before, was possible. Maybe it's not .
I had pictured myself getting at least a taste of uni - to an extent, sitting and watching the parade go by, and.nit overly infringing on the young people's happiness - and feeling at least a waft of the breeze .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

I like spending time at the university walking around the campus and browsing in the library and taking pictures. I plan on being on campus when all the cherry trees are in bloom. Last time I was there on a Saturday a bunch of guys were playing cricket on one of the lawns, which was interesting.

I will admit to being uncertain as to what all this business about antipsychotics taken 40 years ago and not going to university have to do with the decision regarding whether or not to pursue a PTSD diagnosis. I struggle to follow your posts sometimes ASS-P, am I missing something?

...Antipsychcotics zFORCED on me . They zZFUCKED me up!! !! !! !! !! !! ! !! !! !! ! As did the rape .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!