Have you ever been diagnosed with a mental health condition?

[iDontKnowWhat]

I have:

Bipolar Disorder
ADHD

 

[Seered Doom]

I have, many times. My list of mental health struggles I got diagnosed with is long enough to make people at social security want to CTB

 

[movinout17]

Diagnosed Bipolar disorder and anxiety for me. But diagnoses aren't enough to be reasons to CTB alone.

 

[Some place nice]

Psychosis NOS(not specified), depression NOS, inappropriate use of emotions, and homicidal ideation. My therapist told me I have anxiety and ptsd but was never able to get it diagnosed tho. My mind is kinda messed up...

 

[UtopianSoliloquies]

Never got a formal diagnosis--or at least I haven't heard it. I spoke to a psychiatrist once and he prescribed me 50mg Sertraline without ever specifying what I had.

 

[Limerance]

BPD, Clinical depression, and strong traits with OCPD (not enough to be a disorder, though) are my cocktail.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

I was diagnosed with GAD, MDD, and OCD, but I think they were all misdiagnoses, tbh.

 

[Neraul]

Autism
Recurrent depression
Episodes of major depression
Previous Bipolar diagnosis but was definitely wrong

 

[snowcloud9]

GAD, MDD

 

[moondazed]

I have:

Bipolar Disorder
ADHD

My written diagnoses:
ADHD
PTSD
Insomnia
Social anxiety/GAD
Major depression

I'm probably bipolar too but I've intentionally avoided that diagnosis

 

[LetMeBeSad]

Major Depressive Disorder, PTSD and bipolar. The last 2 happened because there was no entry for cptsd in the DSM

 

[feuerflieger]

ive been diagnosed with depression, social anxiety, ptsd (though i think its cptsd), adhd, disordered eating (unspecified), borderline personality disorder and transgender stuff but that's not a mental disorder so i don't really count it.
also on the way to get an official autism diagnosis.
and i know there's more i could get diagnosed with but it doesn't really matter.

 

[hi-okbye]

my doctors love to throw diagnosis at me so heres what i supposedly have so far:
major depressive disorder
generalized anxiety disorder
social anxiety
ptsd
adhd

next to those i have also ben told i have:
ocd
asd

 

[tinyghost]

depression and anxiety as a teen. schizoaffective bipolar type, cptsd and bpd in my 20s. i also struggle with an ED but have not been diagnosed with anything related to that.

 

[undecided]

I was diagnosed with GAD, MDD, and OCD, but I think they were all misdiagnoses, tbh.

So what do you believe your diagnosis/diagnoses is/are?

 

[moondazed]

I think it's important to recognize that diagnoses are just a simple way to categorize people with behavioral phenotypes, or traits. They are useful especially for treatment, but they aren't "real". It shouldn't be an alphabet soup of conditions, just because someone is tagged with something it doesn't mean they're defined by it.

If anyone seeks treatment they should try and make sure they're getting a holistic approach that is tailored towards them specifically and not a bunch of random boxes. Not that that's anywhere near easy to do.

 

[Darkover]

schizophrenia since i was 18

 

[FairyOfShampoo]

ADHD
Social anxiety
Depressions
ED
Love it here (not)

 

[Greyscale]

Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder.

I should get another diagnosis; I'm sure I have more.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

So what do you believe your diagnosis/diagnoses is/are?

Idk... I don't think I'm really mentally ill, tbh. I feel fine. I think they only gave me a bunch of mental illness diagnoses in order to explain why I attempted suicide, along with it giving them an excuse to put me on a bunch of meds (I had to stop seeing a psychiatrist because they threatened to put me in a mental hospital after my mom told them she wasn't too keen on putting me on meds).

 

[LaVieEnRose]

Autism
Depression
BPD
Anxiety

 

[mob]

Diagnosed anxiety, depression and PTSD

 

[NumbItAll]

I think it's important to recognize that diagnoses are just a simple way to categorize people with behavioral phenotypes, or traits. They are useful especially for treatment, but they aren't "real". It shouldn't be an alphabet soup of conditions, just because someone is tagged with something it doesn't mean they're defined by it.

If anyone seeks treatment they should try and make sure they're getting a holistic approach that is tailored towards them specifically and not a bunch of random boxes. Not that that's anywhere near easy to do.

Yes exactly, diagnostic labels are just a way of characterizing certain sets of symptoms. The origins of the DSM are basically that a bunch of assholes got together and arbitrarily voted on what they count as a mental illness. It was not informed by any scientific research or biological markers. That is why there is so much subjectivity involved and why two psychiatrists can diagnose the same person differently. The symptoms and suffering involved are of course very real, but a diagnosis does nothing to explain the underlying causes (which are typically voluminous). As you stated though, it is useful for accessing treatment, but unfortunately the available treatments are usually terrible.

 

[niknod]

I was diagnosed with semantic pragmatic disorder when I was 3 and I have "officially" have has depression following 2 bereavements within 6 months within the last year.

 

[figurehead]

I have:

Bipolar Disorder
ADHD

Bipolar Disorder II
Anxiety
And a bunch of other things that never got diagnosed but are there

 

[chinadoll]

I have:

Bipolar Disorder
ADHD

MDD and anxiety

 

[AnxietyHangover]

Depression and bipolar disorder.

 

[Hotsackage]

ocd, dp dr, major depression. all are chronic and im sure there are others.

 

[reallysleepy]

I have (quiet?) borderline personality disorder and probably depression, but this last one not diagnosed.

 

[AAT]

PTSD