Diagnosis?

[Anxiousangel]

Does anyone here have a diagnosis? just looking for abit of support with dealing with the label.

 

[akrasia]

Like mental or physical?

For me, I have been diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety disorder and social anxiety. My physical health is overall pretty good.

 

[Anxiousangel]

Like mental or physical?

For me, I have been diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety disorder and social anxiety. My physical health is overall pretty good.

I was diagnosed with BPD, but instead of helping it has motivated me to CTB

 

[akrasia]

I was diagnosed with BPD, but instead of helping it has motivated me to CTB

Aw, I'm sorry. You deserve better in life

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

If it helps...

A diagnosis is not an identity. The label applies to a collection of symptoms, not a person.

No one who is diagnosed with cancer is called cancer, or for other physical ailments, they are not called a broken bone, or an alopecian, or a muscle spasm, or an AIDS.

People who work in mental health have a tendency to call people by the diagnostic label: bipolar, borderline, schizophrenic, etc. When I worked in the mental health field (I was not a clinician), as well as when I dealt with mental health practitioners for my own treatment, I reminded them to use person-first language whether they were speaking of me or of others: a person with bipolar, a person with borderline, a person with schizophrenia, etc.

Many diagnoses, especially bipolar and borderline, have criteria that make it difficult for that person to have satisfying and healthy relationships with others, and when those criteria "become" the person by calling them the label, they are treated as less than and as a problem by practitioners, by friends and families, and even by themselves toward themselves. The symptoms can be problems, but not always, and you are not a problem for having them. Mental health practitioners are there to serve you and help you live the best life you can, you are not there to serve and satisfy them.

I hope this gives you a little power in dealing with the label, but if nothing I said was of benefit, just toss it.

 

[kate_rd]

I don't have any physical diagnosis but I have a few psychiatric ones:

ADHD
ODD
BPD/EUPD (same thing, some doctors just change names)
C-PTSD
DDD
Anxiety
Depression
Conduct Disorder

if you have been diagnosed with any of these, don't worry its not the end of the world. it doesn't change anything, it just helps your health care team to find ways to support you, to help you respond a little better. Message me if you wanna talk about anything and ill try my best to help x

 

[BPD Barbie]

I have both physical and mental diagnosis. They can be both informative and destructive. Sometimes not knowing the reality of things is better.

 

[a.n.kirillov]

Yes, stage four aliveness.

 

[willitpass]

Does anyone here have a diagnosis? just looking for abit of support with dealing with the label.

sever major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, complex ptsd, psychosomatic non-epileptic seizures (i look like i'm having a seizure but it's actually just a physical response to stress), mild ocd and i was previously diagnosed with panic disorder but i no longer meet the qualifications. i also may have an eating disorder but have not been diagnosed. it's hard sometimes to think about how you've managed to fit into a label like that but for me it's just kind of become part of who i am. i am willitpass and i have all of these things and will always have all of these things, just like i'll always have brown hair or green eyes. they are just part of who i am and i just accept them