Re:Response to this criticism.

Not to worry, I don't take this stuff personally.

Here's another angle for you. Its rare that a psychiatrist posts here, and they so often have more emphasis in their training on biological/medical/disease approaches to their work. I try to make my points cautiously with them here, and make my points cautiously, in hopes they'll stay interested in a EMDR/ psychological/ trauam/ dissociation frame of reference (where appropriate I mean). Turns out this good gentleman was already well informed about the ubiquity of undiagnosed dissociative conditions.

And I agree with you on several points, one is that trauma patients commonly get misdiagnosed, which was my original point, two, that its adds insult to injury to be sold up the river by a diagnostic system that sometimes doesn't fully recognize that unaddressed trauma can underly lots of diagnoses that then get assumed to be biologically based (like panic disorder) or dismissed in the case of some other conditions (histrionic personality, borderline personality). Sometimes people merely fail to screen for dissociative conditions and diagnose bipolar disorder instead ---the medications are easier than therapy. Sometimes the insurance companies don't cooperate with treatment. Sometimes docs don't believe in dissociation or that it needs to be treated differently than anything else.

On this point we apparently also agree -- no one can fault the EMDR forum for failing to emphasize trauma and dissociation as underlying many conditions.

Trauma clients reading this forum needs to recognize that they may be triggered in a number of ways by what they read here. That includes political triggers - politics is all about power and its abuses. The field of mental health has got its share of political issues that pervade it. So appropriate self care, as usual, is advised for anyone reading this forum. If people get triggered, they may best log off. Leave it to me to make sure that the stuff that happens here is sound and ethical. I'll do my best.

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