What does all the crazy therapist speak mean?
Question:
Does anyone know what all this means besides that I'm crazy.... I've tried looking it up on several sites but with little luck. I asked my therapist and she said it wasn't important. They want my parents to sign me over to the state cause of some other stuff but told me I would not go into foster care, that I'd go somewhere "special"... Kinda scary and they talk to me like I'm 5... Well, any advice would be good... thanx
Answers:
Actually, none of this means that you're crazy.
"Post-traumatic" means that you've experienced some trauma in your past that is contributing to your current emotional state.
"Disassociative" is a specific (and normal) defense against trauma. It simply means that you are able to mentally separate the portion of yourself that you consider to be the most you from the events happening to another portion of yourself (like your physical body). "Disassociative Disorder" means that the disassociation has gone too far and is causing problems.
"MDD" is short for "Major Depressive Disorder" which has a specific set of diagnostic criteria that take too long to write out here. It is commonly referred to as "depression."
"Recurrent episodes" could refer to either recurrences of the depression, the trauma or the disassociation.
"SI" is short for "Suicidal ideation." This can be either active (e.g. you actually try or at least intend to try to kill yourself) or passive (you've thought about killing yourself).
My advice is finding a few people you can trust (e.g. either a therapist or a physician who can answer medical questions; a case-worker, counselor or pastor who can answer the nonmedical questions; a friend who can empathize with you). Even more important, depending on where you are spiritually, is building your relationship with God.
I've read your other questions and truly I feel for you. Life have given you more than the average person can handle.
If I were you, I would move out on my own and seek a Lawyer who specialized in family law. Do not trust your family, sometimes family are the primary source of your destruction. In your condition, it is called "batter women syndrome" a form of mental and physical abuse, which will give you the "Legal Rights" to get emancipate from your family.
Just ask any Family Lawyer in your local phone-book, they will direct you in where to seek help. Some Lawyers will take your case free of charge.
Most family lawyers will do it for you or will let you start a payment plan. I've even know some lawyers who give their clients jobs as assistant to pay off the loan.
I truly know how your feel. The whole world seems to blame you for everything that goes wrong. It happened to me as well. I've ran away when I was 11 years old. Now I am 24, and know truly that my family is CRAZY and is not a healthy place to grow up in.
So Trust Yourself. GET OUT OF THERE.
I am sure they were just suggesting possibilities. PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) usually a result from a past experience such a sexual molestation. Disassociative can fall under many categories amnesia, fugue, identity, depersonalization etc. MDD maybe major depressive disorder. idealiation could have been ideation which you heard differently. and SI could possibly explain the previous ideation which means suicidal ideations.
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