rate of misdiagnosis

[*]Good morning all

I've been diagnosed with BPD despite only having part of 1 major characterising trait of the illness.

Most of my issues stem from ASD, CPTSD and Depression.

Somehow I still ended up with this diagnosis despite being diagnosed with Depression ASD and PTSD in childhood.

Some amateur armchair psychologist with a useless piece of paper has branded me with this diagnosis despite and I mean literally asking no questions about me, for my history,personal opinions and experience etc, I don't even have a history of suicide attempts.

I don't fear abandonment.
I'm not violent.
I have been charged with two things in my life.
-Common Assault.
-Intimidation.
I don't drink or use hard drugs.

I have the usual ex girlfriends but no major fights involving police or anything there.

My relationships are stable outside the effects of depression and PTSD, I just have few.

I'm not an abusive person.

I don't see myself as heavily traumatised.

I don't run around threatening suicide to people, I'm a quiet, introverted person that generally keeps to himself.

I'm not afraid to start new relationships.

I'm intelligent, observant and reflective most of the time, I'm just wondering how I got the diagnosis, is it a series of inept psychiatrists? Most likely.

They are all government employed, the vast majority of them were not native tongue speakers of the main language of my country, most had foreign degrees, they didn't seem to understand what I was saying, I found most of them highly narcissistic and downright arrogant at times, I was never offered therapy, I had to chase it up, I was never asked for a full personal history, they seemed to not know who I was and were constantly asking the wrong questions or just not asking at all, I had one feel threatened and somehow assume that I thought I was smarter than him and launch into some crap about woefully inadequate conversation as if it didn't meet his emotional needs (that would then be you feeding off your patient, that's a big no-no)

I don't usually take control of sessions with them as I see that as not my job, I'm there to discuss my issues, this person was issued a certificate that requires them to be able to do that job and it's part of the course requirements to listen to your patients and probe for important relevant information, I have never had that, I've had a bunch of random people with degrees from random places put random things in my file, I don't show any of the major symptoms to even come close to the requirements for diagnosis in the cluster B setting.

The only major NPD flag I have is that I assume I am smarter, I've taken an IQ test done professionally and scored as genius and above so I've earned that right using a system of their, I'm in the top 2-1.7% percent, I could speak my mind about subjects and describe things and only have 1% of people understand a single thing I meant.

My major question is......Have you ever been misdiagnosed and if so what do you think lead to this, obviously no names of doctors but this xperience has put me in the category of people that don't quite believe in psychiatrists or psychologists and by extension the subject they control.

I'll try to reply to as many responses as I can.

I welcome questions and comments of any kind, feedback on my content is also appreciated.

Does anyone know the average percentage of misdiagnosis?

I'm usually only interested in seeing them when I'm being abused in a close relationship, perhaps it's a sign of similar things attracting that process is something I must work on.

Thanks

Matt

If your talking about science or math, people of lower IQ (near the average in the bell curve) might not understand the analytical logic or science, but they can intellectually identify the field you speak about, for instance if your speak of algebra they'll know it's mathematics. I'm saying this as someone who was tested with higher than average IQ not as an intellectually gifted individual, who hears scientific jargon all the time. The reason you're diagnosed is due to all sorts of humanistic / sociological narratives with focus of ethics and ethos, rather than a society based on logos, rationality, rational skepticism (and with passable reasons, such as robotic inhuman emotional experience in such scientific/analytical environments). Others along the bell curve too report about a conflicts, uncertainty, and malpractice as well as inadequate treatment, lack of empathy or outright violation of person and one's soul. There's no doubt there's more than a handful of misdiagnoses in psychiatry and even medical fields, and debates even in exact sciences concerning science. In your case, your ability puts you in the high end of the bell-curve, and this is threatening to them, as it shows them what hierarchy is , and they feel they won't catch up to you. This could happen to a person with 109 IQ (for instance) compared with people with 93 IQ. Those on the lower end cannot achieve the higher IQ. But the idea of biological based hierarchy freaks them out.