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Insulting mental health diagnoses when pain major issue

Think I alluded to this but has anyone here had experience of being inapropriately (not nearly strong enough language) diagnosed with mental health disorders when you had a pain condition?
It's something I'd really like to discuss. And as I'd also alluded to it's not that I didn't have issues with mental health and that didn't tie into MUCH worse pain and symptoms but these guys literally 'diagnosed' and I have to put that in quotes because it does deserve scorn with Schizoid personality disorder, body dysmorphia and Asperger's. What's insane is none of these remotely relate to pain for instance, as in conversion disorder.
I would like to hear from people where they feel they received an innappropriate label.
In my experience it was a huge issue with how my pain got much worse. Please share your views.
It's something I'd really like to discuss. And as I'd also alluded to it's not that I didn't have issues with mental health and that didn't tie into MUCH worse pain and symptoms but these guys literally 'diagnosed' and I have to put that in quotes because it does deserve scorn with Schizoid personality disorder, body dysmorphia and Asperger's. What's insane is none of these remotely relate to pain for instance, as in conversion disorder.
I would like to hear from people where they feel they received an innappropriate label.
In my experience it was a huge issue with how my pain got much worse. Please share your views.
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Good Afternoon & Welcome.
I am one of the Community Champion’s here at Scope.
There is some good info & advice on “Mind.org.uk Website”
https://www.mind.org.uk/
Yes we have got many members who have problems with Pain/Mental Health.
I have major problems with “Chronic Pain”
Please come back to me if you have any further problems????
@steve51
Are you getting any help with the pain at all?
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I made so many complaints I lost track.
The 'diagnosis' was made by a consultant psychiatrist at an autism clinic over 10 years ago. (Well, that was for Asperger's.)The schizoid personality disorder and body dysmorphic disorder was suggested by the psychiatrist who referred me to the autism clinic.
I will descend into very painful territory but it was enough backing that I mentally broke down and continued to get worse. They write these horrid reports about you. They feel like personal slurs hidden in academic language.
They were very determined to find 'fixed interests' and 'obsesssions'. I don't feel that someone liking chess, music, football and computer games constitutes 'fixed interests'.
What noone was willing to talk about I'd how much pain can impair your learning. If you at complete depression and a feeling that there is no point in learning at all then it only magnifies the difference.
By 16-18 I had fallen a long way from my peer-group in terms of spontaneous use of language. I was VERY aware of this to the point of feeling severe humiliation. Equally I knew that I had no scientific backing. This destroyed my mental health and it is simply an inevitability that I would get severely ill. There was far too much to be up against.
Not right now, no. Thanks for asking.
To be honest I had a means of coping but then when I injured my shoulder I physically couldn't brush my teeth. This has been ongoing in fact from 2014. That's why I felt suicidal from 2017 onwards and exceeded the limit for ringing the Samaritans.