The Dr. Hired by the company opined that I did not have PTSD to refute my diagnosis. He did so after being told of only a few of the extreme Workplace Bullying Harassment incidents. He attempted to dissuade me by telling me that I was mistaken. It was horrendous.

I then took an audio recorder with me to the second appt and he was still dismissive and attempted to dissuade me. He stated that he did not want to hear of the acts that were the extremist and asked me “were you involved in a situation where you were about to be killed” He gave a definition of PTSD and spoke over me. Saying that it could only involve a serious threat to safety…. I asked “threat to emotional/mental safety and ability to keep my job without harassment” and he kept repeating “A threat to safety meaning death”

I then told him that I agreed with my own Dr.’s diagnosis and all of the others that I’d since researched to find that this was happening to people all over the world and that PTSD is very real in such hostage like situations. I told him that I felt hostage and raped as I was forced to enter to try and get my pay for the week under such conditions. I told him that the interpretation I that was only rational was “threat to emotional or physical safety” and thus I agreed with my Dr. if he himself had nothing to offer other than denying my diagnosis as well as the very blatant encounters I’d had with the Bullies. He asked if anyone else had an issue and certainly I had a few stories I’d known and things I’d witnessed to tell him.

He did not want to hear….it was atrocious and I’d suspected it would be after a brief prior meeting with him. Thus I recorded and have the full conversation. I’d not even known it was picked up as the recorder was in my purse pocket. I was so shocked at his blatant demeanor and the coercion, the recorder was last on my mind.

I lost my job in a very retaliatory way and was run over. My family is now in dire straights and I am at a cross roads. I am thankful that bona fide Doctors are speaking out. It is common sense. I hope we implements laws finally for Workplace Bullying status blind pervasive harassment. I am unsure what to do with the recording. I have let many people hear it and they cannot believe that he is truly a Psychiatrist but he is.