Posted by alexandra_k on August 20, 2005, at 18:18:57
In reply to Re: Open Letter to my Psychology 101 Teacher, posted by kerria on August 20, 2005, at 17:41:33
Hey there. Sometimes venting helps so you go for it if you feel the need. At least... I do :-)
I really don't think... That it was appropriate for your lecturer / teacher / whatever to dx you. She could have suggested councelling, or therapy even, and given you her list... She could have offered to try and find someone off it herself if you would like. And if you agreed then she could have asked if it was okay for her to contact one of them about you and if you agreed then she could have told them what dx she thought at that point.
But the way in which they went about that...
Well...
That doesn't sound very professional to me.
I'm sorry you had to find out that way :-(> The school offered no help at all- no understanding as my grades fell from my 3.8 GPA to a bunch of incompletes because of hospitalizations.
What?!
I managed to get IC (incomplete) altered to WD (withdrawn on compassionate grounds). With the psychology department that turned out to be a little tricky... I missed an exam 'cause I was in surgery... I got the form... The form said that it would NOT consider illnesses that were self inflicted. They meant things like drinking oneself sick the night before an exam. I jumped off a bridge a week or so before. The surgeon thought 'self inflicted' and wouldn't sign the form. A p-doc signed it once I managed to get him to understand that OF COURSE I could bloody well do the course again but that wouldn't get me back my GPA now - would it?????!>It was so unfair. Disability services at that school refused to consider my disability because the disability process didn't go through yet (still didn't).
??? Do you have a disability support advocate on campus? We have quite good disability support advocates. But then ours is one of the most politically correct campuses in the country. Still... There should be something. You might want to check that out.
> How does everyone find the support? anyone find colleges that are supportive to students with disabilities that aren't 'documented' yet- or still in the process of it.How do you mean 'aren't documented yet?'. Do you mean about the DID? It would seem to me... That the DID symptoms can be redescribed fairly accurately (or accurately enough for the purposes at hand) by alternative dx if that is what is problematic. I mean... If the issue is about DID being / not being a legit dx then surely the people who feel it is not don't want to say that since you don't have that you are a model of mental health. Nope, they'd dx you with something else / some other combination of dx. You might find someone within the uni system who is willing to do that... But I'd say the first step should be disability support...
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