<p>Your parents didn’t make a mistake – the mental health professionals did, by diagnosing you with one condition when you actually had another.</p>
<p>Your parents may not feel the need to apologize because they do not feel that they made a mistake. They were probably doing as well as they could at the time. Coping with mental illness in a family member – even if the illness is something controllable like OCD – is a difficult challenge.</p>
<p>I’m not saying that you didn’t have a bad experience. Obviously, you did, and everyone here is sorry that it happened. But I think it was more a matter of bad luck – a misdiagnosis followed by some poor care – rather than bad parenting.</p>