"I was successful in getting my diagnosis reverted because my psychiatrist could see that I was well-informed and quite prepared to make life difficult for them. You see, when I insisted that he do a paper trail he had to admit, under duress, that the label of BPD was given to me by a previous psychiatrist who only saw me once, and for literally five minutes, then cheerfully discharged me without any discussion of the fact he’d just changed my diagnosis to BPD. According to my latest psychiatrist, this label then ‘stuck’ because no-one thereafter had had the time, or was bothered, to read my notes to see that there was a long, entrenched history of what they call ‘psychosis’. So, each time a new psychiatrist came along, BPD was rubber-stamped and perpetuated because it was the last thing in my file – decided on a whim by someone who’d spent just five minutes with me and not even consulted his colleagues or my notes!"
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