Comments on: Misdiagnosis: Is It Bipolar Disorder or Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

By: Claire

Claire — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:23:15 +0000

Nature, left alone, is in perfect balance, Masanobu Fukuoka, but what is your true nature and childhood and adulthood, you were not allowed to develop by Nature, but, instead, were abused for years, then drugged with toxic medication, and labeled bipolar, because your parents needed you not to sing your songs and expose their crimes against you. Well, my parental abuser since age 6, to age 40, told me I could tell the whole truth after she died. She died. She poisoned me with Psych Meds, at age 16, knowing her crimes were being exposed in my songs. I escaped her abuse at age 40, moved to Hawaii, chose to heal all the underlying trauma of my borth mother leaving me at 5, and my dad dying for 5 years, and then, my aunt adopting me, a famous actress, whose acting allowed her to threaten, numb and torture until I was 40. I am so grateful for Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Hyla Cass MD, and Dr. Don MacMannis for assisting me in finding my truth, healing my wounds and emotional pain, living in the present with joy, even though I am Disabled.

I know life for the first time; I can feel, trust and say what is true for me; Books and a holistic protocol and prescription from from Dr. Hyla Cass allowed me to heal, deeply. I am free.

Anything can heal.

Psych meds do not heal; they numb and cut off our connection to the healer, Nature, God and Love. I am living proof that anything can heal.

Aloha, Claire

By: Madhumita

Madhumita — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:46:10 +0000

Very well written article, thank you so much! As a young Indian student of Psychology – learning about Trauma Informed therapy has changed my life!

By: Layna Hodgson

Layna Hodgson — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:53:50 +0000

This is extremely interesting and something my lived experience totally validates

I think that this is one of the most damaging things currently. With post COVID epidemic levels of mental health challenges and the growing awareness as people start to share and attempt to destigmatize some of the awful approaches taken to Mental Health.

Firstly I’m British. I am proud of how the a British people have responded to mental health care scandals. Recently 2 mental health care facilities were investigated and there were arrests and sweeping changes due to leaked videos

The British emergency services are held accountable and trained in trauma based responses to mental health care incidents. People who need help and are struggling with trauma and perhaps too many social societal pressures. Big feelings and low resilience due to abuse and trauma

Throw in the fact that they have swallowed down the trauma for years. They have been surviving and trying to stay positive for others.

Now when they need help. They’re met with the following which is the Netherlands approach.

What’s wrong with you? You will be taken into a place which is like a prison. At these places to justify the huge cost to medical insurance companies, bipolar, psychoses and Mania are all diagnosed. If you sleep and can’t be manic anymore you’re given a new DSM personality disorder.

You lodge complaints with patient rights advocates and advise others to protect their rights

Now you’re schitzoeffectives and paranoid. Your Mania (described more accurately as aggigation)

Perfectly natural human response to incarceration, degredation, and torture. excessive force used. Men holding down women with trauma and removing women’s clothes and physically and emotionall6 traumatising and abusing them further)

Existing traumas are made worse. People try to kill themselves to escape a rotten governmental health system in the Netherlands.

It’s a cottage industry built on the pain and suffering of a lot of traumatised people. People who need CPTSD therapy. NOT force medicating, isolating and life destroying

The pharamsuetical industry and the corresponding governments and providers or health insurance must demand evidence and return on investment.

There is non. Psychiatry is a pseudo science. Unless you have scientific diagnosis and trust. Yo7 have absolutely no rights to put a bipolar label on a traumatised person. This allows you to be hurt. Abused and misunderstood and suffer horrifying personal and emotional injury

You learn no matter how successful you were. You now have NO no rights, and can be force medicated with dangerous antipsychotic medications offlabel.

Side effects are horrific. Suicidalitt. Agitation. Mania can cause movement disorders and render you overweight, not able to drive as you’re tranquilised and zombified

When you could treat someone with therapy and ask what happened to you

This is likely to create the basis for a professional relationship and will ensure people feel listened to. Feel compassion and that industries with unethical and questionable approaches to “care” are held accountable

By: Hami

Hami — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 05:42:12 +0000

I think I may just have found a possible answer for my diagnosis problem.
See, I’m actually Brazilian. Here, Doctors have to use specifically the ICD for diagnosis.
We are a very unequal country, indeed. We have a massive, incredible public health system, with good sides, and bads sides. I don’t have money for the fancy hospitals, clinics and private health (mostly because my mental health condition has impaired me that much and I can’t afford it), but the part of the public system that treats severe mental health conditions is actually pretty good. Unfortunately I can not say the same for the treatment of mild cases, and that makes me very angry, but let me move on to what I was going to say about my case.
So.. Everytime I had to start my evaluation over with a new team, it was like… Bipolar disorder… But then, no, it’s borderline personality disorder. But Brazil doesn’t use DSM for diagnosis and paperwork.
Now I’m in assessment for ADHD, but it’s known that I’ve had a horrible experience of different types of trauma in my childhood.
The good news is that I could just talk about it with the people who care for me in the clinic, my psychologist and the psychiatrist, and check if this may be a possibility and if it would help my treatment to know this. Because they are not that much tied to the ICD to choose the treatment options. I just can’t get, let’s say, some medications are given for free specifically for a certain ICD code. High cost medications.
Anyway. Thank you for your post!!!

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 17:35:03 +0000

I was diagnosed with Bipolar 2 when I was finishing up college in my last semester, keep in mind that last semester I had a very bad car wreck that caused a concussion and eventually led me to have my first psychotic break. I only gave my symptoms at the time of my episode but never told my psychiatrist about the abuse I recieved growing up as a child, my siblings and I were beaten heavily until my dad finally went to therapy, and at my new school from 4th-12th grade I was constantly lied about even my so-called “friends” made up rumors that ruined my will to live, at the age of 16 I was raped and groomed by a 23-year-old classmates uncle that led me to become slightly overweight and I OD’ed a month after our first interaction (I didn’t realize what truly happened until I went to therapy years later), relationships I have struggled with especially when betrayed by my last love when he cheated and then continued to lie about me. I felt as if maybe I was bipolar and that is why I viewed things differently and couldn’t seem to fit in (that I was delusional). Some of my family and friends mentioned that they didn’t think I was completely bipolar but maybe I was just a victim of constant betrayals. I just have a hard time accepting that because I have never once gotten an apology from anyone besides my father… I feel as if I am truly the problem and that is why I can’t seem to be normal. How would I deal with something like this if I couldn’t even get the people in my life to see my pain and understand it? I am now medicated but the pain never seems to end

By: Joy

Joy — Sun, 12 May 2024 22:47:42 +0000

Great to hear this being discussed.
By the way there are a couple of typos – 2nd para has an extra “how”.
Later this sentence – Although we look up to doctors, they are the only people with diplomas.
I think you need to delete “the”. But also “diploma” is not the correct term for a medical qualification. A diploma is a short qualification typically 1 full time year or equivalent. It takes a lot longer than a year to qualify as a psychiatrist or psychologist or even just a general medical practitioner.

By: Jeanne Leonard

Jeanne Leonard — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 01:00:23 +0000

I believe that I was diagnosed with bipolar when in fact it was CPTSD. I TOOK THE MEDS BECAUSE THEY HELPED ME SLEEP WHICH WAS ALL I WANTED FROM PDOC. AFTER 6 YEARS OF taking zyprexa + 3 other meds I came down with very serious “anxiety “. Which I have come to believe was akathisia without the need to constantly move. It was overwhelming. After a few months the mouth movements started and I ditched the pdoc because she was still insisting that I was seriously ill. In 2017 I began taking Ingrezza. Within 2 weeks the constant restlessness (anxiety) subsided suddenly and my mouth started feeling a bit better. After 6 years on Ingrezza I have developed Parkinsonism ,OMD, GAIT & balance disorders. I have been classified as severely disabled Imam now 77y/o

By: Shirley J Davis

Shirley J Davis — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:52:20 +0000

In reply to Shahaf meiroz.

Here are two links that will help. Also, if you use Google Scholar, you can put the names of these papers into its search and it will come up with a citation for each as well as related articles. Good luck with your paper.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1399-5618.2004.00151.x?casa_token=rqPsmoWkh_sAAAAA%3AYvvyM67wsBsejtM_fILhDSj7865yMnzneeLuUWAW0ICoORJyVdTzM96uoySrpYBOz13D4k0UgfVf8Q

https://repositorio.ufba.br/bitstream/ri/13468/1/1-s2.0-S0165032709003498-main.pdf

By: Shahaf meiroz

Shahaf meiroz — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 06:51:26 +0000

In reply to Remi.

hello Remi.
I’m a student who currently is writing a big essay about the relationship between bipolar disorder and PTSD.
I know you posted that comment two years ago but I would like to ask you for the name and where can I find the literature review you have wrote, I would like to use it for my essay as it would help me a lot.
thank you very much, Shahaf.

By: Cherry Liu

Cherry Liu — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 05:39:32 +0000

My whole life, my parents, doctors, society, etc have told me I have “anxiety, depression, bipolar, etc…” but never discussed trauma or complex PTSD. Meanwhile, the medical system profited from my symptoms as I was running around with a dysregulated nervous system. I shared this with my primary care doctor recently, and I could tell she saw some truth in it.

Did you know that in 1980, the DSM III contained a foreword that acknowledged that it was so imprecise it should never be used for forensic or insurance purposes, but that this was erased in future revisions?

Did you know that in 1994, a group of clinicians including Judith Herman proposed a revision to the DSM IV to include C-PTSD but it was rejected by the DSM committee? Childhood abuse and neglect which leads to complex-PTSD is often the root of symptoms such as anxiety, depression, bipolar, borderline, and many other disorders.

Did you know that in 2013, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) director Thomas Insel announced his agency could no longer support DSM’s symptom-based diagnosis? Yet mental health clinicians still continue to use this handbook to diagnose and “treat” mental health disorders which are actually a result of colonial capitalist patriarchal abuse inflicted on the nuclear family unit.