PTSD

[anxiousmum1998]

Has anyone paid privately to get a diagnosis of PTSD unfortunately the nhs waiting list is so long and at this point I just want to get some form of treatment.If privately diagnosed would the nhs accept the diagnosis and continue to provide treatment?

Unfortunately I don't think there would be much value in seeking a private diagnosis of PTSD. It's not like getting a private diagnosis of, say, ADHD, which results in access to a specific potentially helpful drug.
Any NHS professionals that saw you would still need to make their own assessment of what your treatment needs are. Many forms of mental health treatment aren't targeted at one specific diagnosis. Conditions such as PTSD overlap with other diagnoses such as depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, etc, etc.
Each 'diagnosis' is a particular framing of underlying problems that have features of a range of conditions, and the framing chosen by each professional will reflect their assessment of how best to help the patient. It will also reflect their own particular resources for therapeutic intervention, eg, the NHS may simply offer its usual first-call resource of some sort of CBT or of anti-deprssants, regardless of whether your 'diagnosis' is PTSD or depression or something else.

Also, I would be a bit suspicious of any private psychological service that was aimed at providing a 'diagnosis' rather than actually offering a therapeutic intervention in and of itself.
Most private therapists would surely be focused on having a number of sessions that enabled you to explore yourself and achieve improvement - the process itself is the therapeutic intervention and if it was artificially constrained to the task of finding a label that you could carry over to the NHS it would be sabotaging itself.

above poster says all that needs to be said.

you’re better off spending your money on treatment than diagnosis.

best of luck