SaSu user predicted my diagnosis 4 years before I got diagnosed

[fowlbandit]

I was regular on here about 4 years ago and some other users suspected I had Bipolar. 4 years later and I just got an official diagnosis. For all the bad rep SaSu gets the advice I got on here was better than anyone else I got for 4 years.

 

[unluckysadness]

I'm not surprised. I personally diagnosed myself 2 severe neurological diseases (with the help of Google) when doctors said it was just "stress" or "fatigue"...

 

[dragonofenvy]

Who could've guessed that a group of mentally ill people, who often spend years of their lives researching mental illness in order to better understand it, can do better than people who read about it in a textbook but have never gone through it with such severity? I wouldn't be surprised if the people who suspected you of being bipolar were bipolar themselves.

 

[Somewhat Suicidal]

While being self critical is inherently important when self diagnosing or getting diagnosed by non-professionals I agree that often the ones affected and dealing with similar issues themselves have a clearer lens to do so than an overloaded health care system that can't afford to really spend enough time on any singular person to properly assess what might be wrong. I have personally seen both utterly false self or peer diagnosis and professional diagnosis many times, so I think both are to be taken with a grain of salt in the end. Most people don't seem to be reflected and rationally intelligent enough to properly self diagnose from my experience and most professional contexts lack the time commitment needed to diagnose especially complex cases correctly. The safest results come from combining both approaches in my opinion – like in the case of the OP.

 

[Lost in a Nightmare]

Sounds like my ex-GF who thought I might have ADHD. While I haven't gone through the process of getting it diagnosed yet, once she pointed it out to me, it made a lot of sense. She also suspected like I did a long time ago that I might be autistic as well.

 

[Somewhat Suicidal]

Sounds like my ex-GF who thought I might have ADHD. While I haven't gone through the process of getting it diagnosed yet, once she pointed it out to me, it made a lot of sense.

As someone who is diagnosed with ADHD for 22 years and also pretty much diagnosed by anyone who interacts with me in real life more than 2 hours when im unmedicated I would still say, get a proper diagnosis.
The amount of people I met in my life who got 'diagnosed' by friends or 'self-diagnosed' this wrongly is honestly astonishing. I witnessed many of those diagnoses not being confirmed when put to a real test under clinical conditions and those are pretty reliable as far as ADHD goes.