Inpatient VS Outpatient Diagnosis

[Addyman]

So, during being labeled "5150" (During an episode of Kloni-Rage, brought on by 10mg Clonazepam single dose)

5150 in California meaning "Danger to self and others"

So I was under an involuntary 72 hour hold in a Mental Hospital (somehow I prooved I was not depressed after my countless talks with therapists there, pleading my innocence, and I was the only one in a quite a while to be released before 72 hours)

I read a paper during signing some forms for my discharge, and it said...

Outpatient Diagnosis
AD/HD
Anxiety Disorder N.O.S.

Inpatient Diagnosis
AD/HD
Anxiety Disorder N.O.S.
Depression
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Insomnia (Acute)

Did they JUST diagnose me with 3 more things
OR
Did they REDIAGNOSE AD/HD and Anxiety, and diagnose 3 more things



They basically brought up ADHD symptoms during therapy because they saw I couldn't pay attention for shit
They also saw when checking my Vitals, my first vital's pulse was 70-80
The rest of them pulse was 109-129 and they THEN AGAIN sent me to therapy for anxiety

^this is why I think they might have had to re-diagnose or maybe have evidence the disorder still existed to list it as inpatient diagnosis

 

[Tripman]

Re-diagnosis.

Everytime you see a new shrink they re-evaluate you.

I went into a ward with chronic anxiety, Bi-polar and came out with Bi-polar, borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, sleep disorder, panic disorder...

Heck they love to label you... I've been to 6 wards and always seem to pick up new "disorders" and then the same old - but only if they believe you actually have it.

 

[Addyman]

Re-diagnosis.

Everytime you see a new shrink they re-evaluate you.

I went into a ward with chronic anxiety, Bi-polar and came out with Bi-polar, borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, sleep disorder, panic disorder...

Heck they love to label you... I've been to 6 wards and always seem to pick up new "disorders" and then the same old - but only if they believe you actually have it.

I can tell you the Acute insomnia isn't fun

3 hours of sleep friday night
3 hours of sleep saturday night
3 hours of sleep sunday night
3 hours of sleep monday morning
39 hours awake with an under 60 minute nap before I fell asleep tuesday night at 11pm-12pm

At the moment I'm on hour 17 awake thursday morning -_- god dammit

 

[Tripman]

I've been like that for years. I get to sleep between 1-3am and wake up at 5am or I don't sleep at all.

I've currently been awake for 35 hours myself.

All of the regular sleeping medications fail basically unless I hammer them hard.

 

[Addyman]

I was drinking and took 3mg of Lunesta during that 39 hour bs

I was even on 6mg lunesta earlier

AMBIEN works perfect for me!
Yet, I don't have any

 

[effie]

Re-diagnosis.

Everytime you see a new shrink they re-evaluate you.

I went into a ward with chronic anxiety, Bi-polar and came out with Bi-polar, borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, sleep disorder, panic disorder...

Heck they love to label you... I've been to 6 wards and always seem to pick up new "disorders" and then the same old - but only if they believe you actually have it.

Yeah Addy, Tripman is right, psychiatrists tend to start from scratch when they meet someone, and re-evaluate things, especially if you have been admitted. They take past history into account of course, but things change, and it is important to look at how a person is right at that moment in time. I dislike all the labels that are stuck on people too -- psychiatric diagnoses are often names psychiatrists give to clusters of symptoms, much like pattern recognition. It makes it easier to communicate things and to know what treatment might work if a disorder has a name, but I don't believe that psychiatric disorders are neat, discrete entities in the same was that a lot of physical conditions are..

If you are seeing an outpatient psychiatrist (which I imagine you will be after this) I would discuss this with them and see what they say.. and if the labels bother you, discard them in your head. They are only names

I'm going to move this to The Dark Side, as it's not really a BDD style question. Glad you are out and I'm so sorry about what happened to you

BDD > TDS