I can totally relate to this article.
I presented at NHFT Mental Health few years ago and literally all they knew was that I was an abuse victim with a pending court case (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-30817150) From this, they slapped a diagnosis of BPD on my medical record without discussing it with me, without asking about my formative years or behavioural patterns, without knowing anything really and gave me this diagnosis behond my back! It wasn't until seeing my medical records few years later I discovered this fact! A private psychiatrist prior to NHFT had done a full review of me and said I was depressed and anxious. Another private psychiatrist after NHFT also took the time to talk through my life with me and diagnosed Complex PTSD. Being BPD is not a negative thing but diagnosing it requires strict criteria and this was not followed at all when I was given this diagnosis behind my back - a diagnosis which I do not relate to at all, and doctors are meant to discuss your diagnosis with you, not behind your back. When I asked Dr Shahid Hussain of NHFT for a diagnosis review as I felt I couldn't relate to a lot of the symptoms of BPD, within minutes of the start of the consultation he shouted at me and insisted I was BPD without even hearing me out. When my partner told him to zip it, Hussain shouted at him too. Hussain then wrote on my medical record, again behind my back, that I was 'BPD - impulsive type ' purely because I disagreed with him. So disagreeing with a doctor makes you medically impulsive?!
Honestly, don't ever try and look at your medical record - its a web of lies and deceit half the time!
I also had a meeting with 2 OTs from NHFT - one very sweet lady described me to my GP from this meeting as 'pleasant and polite', the other, sat in the same meeting was Richard Cosens who put on my medical record (due to a complaint in writing and him breaching my confidentiality) I was 'violent, abusive, demanding and confrontational' - how can the same person present as 'pleasant' to one person and 'violent' to another in the same meeting! I sat like a peaceful mouse in that meeting but got name called after due to a complaint. Cosens is now, not surprisingly, subject to investigation by the HCPC for his treatment of me. He was horrified to find I had seen my medical record! LOL!
If you want a depressing read, more bleak than Dickens, then access your full medical record now! Available in all good bookstores!
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