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Wow. So yeah.... had a psych evaluation today because my case is up for review with disability and it left me questioning.
He was an older gentleman, stern in manner. He was not mean or anything but with a lot of the questions he asked me I felt that like I was only allowed to give very incomplete answers. Like when he asked me my mental conditions..... my first response was of course Bipolar 1 and then when I went to tell him about the PTSD and new diagnosis of Social Anxiety disorder, he just cut me off and moved on to the next question. HE began to ask about my anxiety issues that I am having lately and I started my answer with anxiety and difficulty with going outside of my house and I was cut off again! I did not get to fully answer about the angry explosions, or the fear of talking to new people, or any of the several other symptoms that I have had.
I just left feeling like he only knew like a quarter of what I go through on a daily basis. I am not sure what to do at the moment. Do I just let it go? Do I call my case worker and tell her that I felt the evaluation was too vague to be used? With the little information that he does have, I do not see how that could possibly be a proper evaluation for something like disability. I am not sure where to go from here.
I tried to even explain to him that I am in the after math of the exposure therapy that I have just been through and he just did not want to hear it apparently
He was an older gentleman, stern in manner. He was not mean or anything but with a lot of the questions he asked me I felt that like I was only allowed to give very incomplete answers. Like when he asked me my mental conditions..... my first response was of course Bipolar 1 and then when I went to tell him about the PTSD and new diagnosis of Social Anxiety disorder, he just cut me off and moved on to the next question. HE began to ask about my anxiety issues that I am having lately and I started my answer with anxiety and difficulty with going outside of my house and I was cut off again! I did not get to fully answer about the angry explosions, or the fear of talking to new people, or any of the several other symptoms that I have had.
I just left feeling like he only knew like a quarter of what I go through on a daily basis. I am not sure what to do at the moment. Do I just let it go? Do I call my case worker and tell her that I felt the evaluation was too vague to be used? With the little information that he does have, I do not see how that could possibly be a proper evaluation for something like disability. I am not sure where to go from here.
I tried to even explain to him that I am in the after math of the exposure therapy that I have just been through and he just did not want to hear it apparently
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When i was in the ER February 16th 2025, i was being admitted to ICU where i was for 3 weeks, then had to relearn to walk for 3 weeks in another hospital rehab floor, the nurse told me something that made me feel for over 18 months now that i was finally *safe*. She told me that the guy who raped and beat me 21 years ago now almost 20 years at that time, was in prison as of a month before that...
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Sometimes, I think I have ODD. I can be oppositional. It seems that the only times that I feel like cleaning are when I should be doing something else or I have to go somewhere. Well, not everytime but most of the time. Yesterday, I was supposed to be doing online training for work but instead, I decided to work on my kitchen table. Most of the time, I don't know where to start and give...
it's when they ask a million questions and put you under a microscope that there is cause for worry.
Which doesn't do much to soften that feeling of being shit on somebody's shoe. Sorry you have to feel whatever version of it you are feeling.
I would JUST let it go as best as I can.
Gentle support while you find what works for you, Pheonix.