Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?

Why are people who normally would have been diagnosed as having DID, now being diagnosed with Bipolar I?



And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?



Dissociation is a mental process in which there is a lack of connection in thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or identity. While dissociating, certain information is not associated with other information as it normally would be. Some believe that dissociation exists on a continuum ranging from daydreaming to Dissociative Identity Disorder at the other. However there is great overlap between the different dissociative disorders (DD), including DID.



Symptoms



* Multiple personalities, on average 10 though there can be as few as two and as many as 100

* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics

* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)

* Often they are depressed or suicidal

* Self-mutilation is common

* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations

* The average age for the development of alters is 5.9 years

* Depressive symptoms

* An inability to focus in school (in childhood)

* Conduct problems (in childhood)



Why are parents now allowed to blame the child? When really the parent is the one with the problems?Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
Children and Animals just don't have a voice of their own. Whatever they say or do is ignored or undermined.



If you try to point this out while you are the same age as the children being yanked around,.. boy oh boy does it NOT COUNT.



It's pretty easy for a parent with mental problems or drug abuse problems to lie about their child and the other adults to believe them. It's easy to ignore what children say or act out.



As for disorders and mental illness. They have everything screwed up to begin with. They just keep shuffling things.. they're already renamed Multiple Personality Disorder again. The average person is fed inaccurate stereotypes.. they are taught Schizophrenia is really what would be Bipolar and Multiple Personality Order combined %26gt;.%26lt;



Try to remember though, real humans often have more then one condition. Which isn't why the stereotypes exist. It's because enough doctors were idiots.



Then there are all the misdiagnoses. I have talked to people who have been getting mental care for 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 years.. everything constantly changes. Their diagnoses constantly change. And I don't mean just the name of a disorder changes,.. the doctors suddenly decide they are something completely then they were before.



Having an imagination is a mental illness to enough people, that children are all screwed up based on normal childhood behavior and milestones.. so this throws stats around wildly. The doctors and schools will mislabel children to fit whatever the child needs to be to get the Hot New Med or the one the doctor will be rewarded for the most.



Then there are the damn side effects from the meds,.. my doctors over dosed me on experimental meds.. they then decided the side effects were symptoms -- but as in symptoms of an illness for someone not on any meds. They gave me more experimental medications. It's normal for them to give more meds for side effects and then more meds for the side effects to the meds that were given for side effects. It makes a nice mess, even out of people without mental or health problems, which gives an inaccurate description of the person normally.



Additionally, all children have an imagination, have trouble focusing long periods of time, and will cause problems for another human being.



The following are caused by psych meds no matter who takes them:

* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics

* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)

* Often they are depressed or suicidal

* Self-mutilation

* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations

* Depressive symptoms



Now to get down to the not so obvious. If a parent is mentally ill or a drug addict.. they are going to have some negatives in their parenting. If they are certain things, then their children will have trauma pretty early. I even have a friend who is Mentally Retarded ( the doctors can't decide on what type) from her mother "partying" while she was pregnant. Her mother lost her previous child when she set the house on fire and left them, an infant, to die inside the burning house... they waited until the place was thoroughly engulfed before telling anyone the baby was still inside. If you were to survive such an experience.. you would have had a great trauma before you were 6. Unfortunately, some of the people who take care of children removed from their real parents are themselves abusive or sexual deviants (those kids get double the trauma and from what I've seen are mislabeled Schizophrenic because of Adults favoring Adults).



Added: girrl88.. of everyone I've known to take Psych meds,.. they always had side effects. Most had that list,.. it is nearly impossible for a Doctor to get you on a perfect med at perfect dosage right off the bat. So far the only people that do not have side effects and things work perfectly for are people in denile, people who do not see reality perfectly ( often because of the meds), drug seekers, people who do not take their medication, and.. especially.. people who are having side effects in a way they are unaware of them ( when you are in the car with these people, they some times drive off the road and babble nonsense -- but to them they are perfectly fine, everything is normal.. and the side effects can only be reported by family members or friends.. which requires paper work and the person will not believe so is unlikely to agree upon. And that is a good way to lose your drivers liscence and to learn the hard/wrong way you are having side effects. I know a few people that have had that happen at this point.. they "do best" with medications-- more like they are not seeing reality).Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?
Well, I'm not quite sure which question you want answered...



"Why are parents allowed to redirect blame onto the child, when the parent is in need of psychiatric care?" - I would guess that most people don't realize that the parent is in need of psychiatric care.



"Why are people who normally would have been diagnosed as having DID, now being diagnosed with Bipolar I?" - I was completely unaware that folks with DID were being misdiagnosed as Bipolar. There has been a rise in the number of folks being diagnosed as bipolar but that is mostly due to bipolar finally being considered a spectrum illness. Where did you get the info about the misdiagnoses?



"And, now why is it no longer considered trauma related? Why is everyone stating that it is hereditary?" - As far as I know DID is still considered a trauma related illness whereas bipolar is hereditary.







And sailortinkitty - this whole bit that I'm quoting is untrue.

"The following are caused by psych meds no matter who takes them:

* Exhibits different personalities, behavior and even physical characteristics

* Episodes of amnesia or time loss (i.e.: don't remember people, places, etc.)

* Often they are depressed or suicidal

* Self-mutilation

* 1/3 of patients experience visual or auditory hallucinations

* Depressive symptoms"



THESE THINGS ARE NOT CAUSED BY PSYCH MEDICATIONS IF THE MEDS ARE APPROPRIATE AND CORRECTLY TAKEN.

It both saddens and scares me to see this kind if erroneous information being spread.