5Decades ( member #83504) posted at 10:48 PM on Thursday, February 12th, 2026
Based on your description of how you were "diagnosed", I would call that psychiatrist and let them know you will be filing a formal complaint with the state medical board.
A diagnosis of mental disorder requires an examination of the patient primarily, and if other input is needed then interviews and other information (such as formal examinations that include scaled scores and are norm-referenced).
You also should have been given a formal evaluation of some kind. One "interview" of that short duration is insufficient for proper diagnostic information. To determine you were "hostile" to testing and making a diagnosis based on that opinion is malpractice.
Call and ask them for their malpractice insurance company information. Tell them that if this phony diagnosis is entered in your record you plan to sue. And notify them that if they file for insurance payment on it, you will tell your insurance company that he is making false claims of "assessment and evaluation" when that did not occur.
This is outrageous.
5Decades BW 69 WH 74 Married since 1975
Superesse ( member #60731) posted at 10:52 PM on Thursday, February 12th, 2026
5Decades, exactly my thinking too.
But how strange a consensus, one should not feel any residual anger at betrayal?
Being licensed in the medical profession as you are, means that many qualifying personal criteria have been met and must continue to be met, isn't that correct? So I am concerned about the possibility of the negative impact of a mental health diagnosis, and as we can only go by what we read here, I'm just concerned for how this process potentially could be used against a BS. Like many of us here.
[This message edited by Superesse at 10:54 PM, Thursday, February 12th]
