This is a really interesting article. I was also misdiagnosed with a personality disorder before finding out I was autistic. Its left me with a very strong distrust of psychiatrists. The psychiatrist saw me for all of 30 minutes and told me I had BPD without doing the full diagnostic interview which apparently takes several hours. He then passed me off to his assistant who prescribed me antipsychotic medication that I didn't need. It took two years for me to get a referral to a very understanding psychologist who did the full diagnostic interview and told me I didn't have BPD but some of the answers I'd given in the interview had made her suspect that I was autistic. I'm still dealing with the trauma of the misdiagnosis and the lasting effects of the antipsychotics. I was going to make a formal complaint about the psychiatrist but a friend who works in psychology told me there's no point because the psychiatrist would just say it was his professional opinion and you can't make a complaint against a doctor's opinion. So the arsehoe is still probably misdiagnosing vulnerable autistic people with no consequences. It makes me so angry.
This is a really interesting article. I was also misdiagnosed with a personality disorder before finding out I was autistic. Its left me with a very strong distrust of psychiatrists. The psychiatrist saw me for all of 30 minutes and told me I had BPD without doing the full diagnostic interview which apparently takes several hours. He then passed me off to his assistant who prescribed me antipsychotic medication that I didn't need. It took two years for me to get a referral to a very understanding psychologist who did the full diagnostic interview and told me I didn't have BPD but some of the answers I'd given in the interview had made her suspect that I was autistic. I'm still dealing with the trauma of the misdiagnosis and the lasting effects of the antipsychotics. I was going to make a formal complaint about the psychiatrist but a friend who works in psychology told me there's no point because the psychiatrist would just say it was his professional opinion and you can't make a complaint against a doctor's opinion. So the arsehoe is still probably misdiagnosing vulnerable autistic people with no consequences. It makes me so angry.