What were you diagnosed with?

[Minudah]

PTSD, either ADD or ADHD I don't remember which but think it was ADHD, and a lot of chronic health problems

 

[Boonks]

OCD. Thats it.

No need to rub it in our faces that OCD is all you have. "That's it"

Just kidding, lol...sort of

 

[Dog Food]

Anorexia binge/purge subtype, gad, mdd and ocd.

 

[xXSarac3nSlay3rXx]

I was diagnosed Bipolar II. So far, meds haven't helped at all.

 

[dovistico]

I was originally diagnosed with ADHD and social anxiety disorder. However, it is controversial among experts whether the fear of rejection is a component of ADHD or a separate disorder.

 

[uiop]

Diagnosed with clinical depression and generalized anxiety. You know, the fun stuff!

 

[HelpPlease]

All the diagnosis are bullshit ways to get money

 

[neveranyhope]

I'm honestly surprised the PTSD numbers aren't higher, but it confirms my armchair theory that 'doctors' are misdiagnosing people with Complex PTSD as Borderline. It happened to me, at least. I was misdiagnosed several times - well, I guess the initial DX of MDD was accurate, if broad. I was DX with Bipolar II, then Borderline, then finally C-PTSD. But I feel like C-PTSD has only really become discussed in literature in the last 10-15 years? And I've been at this shit much longer than that. I guess it's not that surprising that they still just do not know that much about any of this. People are expressing shock and dismay that sexual harassment could cause women to leave a job with trauma and it's freaking 2019, so I shouldn't be surprised nobody knows wtf they're talking about.

Also, only mentioning this because others have talked about being harmed by psych meds, and reading your accounts has made me so incredibly grateful that I came out unscathed. In college, I was medicated very heavily with anti-psychotics "just to be safe" after one possibly hypomanic (self-reported, unhospitalized) episode (I don't really think it was one though, looking back on it). I remember having terrible reactions to Abilify and then getting put on a cocktail of Lexapro, Lamictal, and something else I can't think of. For some reason the Abilify stands out in my head but not the other anti-psychotic. I cut everything off cold turkey after 6 years and I didn't have any reactions. I still can't quite understand how that happened given everything I was on at the time I stopped (I also stopped my Gabapentin at that time, because it had stopped working). I was insanely depressed from life at the time and going through a breakup and losing my job and I was like, this shit isn't helping, fuck it.

In college something that really kept me going after a lifetime of misery was the concept that mental illness is an illness just like diabetes — it was the first step in allowing me to separate from the notion that I'm just a bad person. The shitty thing was once I got into real therapy and talked about the first 18 years of my life, I came to realize that actually, I was probably fine and I had been ruined by abuse and constantly moving around the country for my dad's job. That realization has been as devastating (if not more) as if I'd just had, like, a true brain disorder/other incurable life-altering disease. The abuse led me to make horrible decisions in my early 20s and form terrible, toxic relationships with people that would lead to the nothing existence I have now.

Also, just an aside, Pete Davidson is constantly talking about how he has Borderline Personality Disorder when he clearly has CPTSD. They present very similarly, the difference being that the sense of self in someone with CPTSD is consistent— just consistently negative. I think that diagnoses and labeling can be very very helpful to people in terms of helping them organize thoughts around what's going on, but labeling people with something like Borderline (a hallmark of which is no insight! My mother is Borderline) when they're trying to get help for themselves seems limiting.

Sorry I'm so long-winded and sometimes sound like a know it all. I don't mean to. I just don't do anything other than read constantly so I always have a lot to say and nobody to say it to :(

 

[Deleted member 94]

Diagnosed with ocd, depression, severe crohns disease and psoriasis which was caused by side effect of treating the crohns disease, my doctor said that the cure is worst than the illness.

 

[dovistico]

All the diagnosis are bullshit ways to get money

If people would tolerate and respect each other the way they are, then I would agree with you. But you need a diagnosis so that you can tell the world that you need help. Unfortunately, in many cases even that doesn't help.

 

[HelpPlease]

It's the call before the drugs. And the drugs kill
Stay away from drs if you want a long healthy life

 

[Bloodtearsdust]

ADHD - In my opinion I have severe case of the adult type causing problems with planning, procrastionation, keeping time etc. I know it's a childrens diagnosis but In my opinion it has an extremely negative effect on me as an adult.

Depression. Not really depressed anymore though, in a weird limbo SSRI state of not quite sure what. But I've had the diagnosis before.
Anxiety - Not sure if this is a diagnosis.
Panic attack - got the the diagnosis when I panic attacked during meeting with doctor. Don't really panic attack anymore.
Psychosomatic symptoms.
Self harm

Adult ADHD is definitely a thing! And it often occurs with other stuff, depression, anxiety, ocd, learning disability. Also SSRI's tend not to work as well or at all with people with ADHD. The old classes of antidepressants are better.

 

[Walilamdzi]

Bipolar

 

[Jean Améry]

A few psychiatrists considered me to suffer from 'major depressive disorder'.

Since then I learned psychopathology is basically medicalization of human problems and suffering: obviously the experiences and suffering are very real and sometimes extremely painful but there's no science to this, no objective tests like in actual medicine so it's all opinion and prejudice used for mind- and thought control, money and careermaking and depriving perfectly innocent people of their liberty and right to self-determination including suicide.

After years of being gullible and being used as a guinea pig (with nothing but damage and more than a decade of lost opportunities and lost time to show for it) I've come to the conclusion there is no real, effective medical treatment for what ails me. If I can't find a way to deal with this myself suicide is the logical conclusion as it removes consciousness itself and therefore all suffering.

 

[myrtaryniel]

BPD, depression and social anxiety, but BPD is what fucks me up the most

 

[Boonks]

I don't know what the truth is! I just know I'm fucked!

 

[Tabbyql]

Emotionally unstable personality disorder, OCD, depression, generalised anxiety, ptsd.

 

[Mr. Hang Man]

GAD, MDD, ASD, your average diagnosis I guess.

 

[big-nothing]

I recently got discharged and was diagnosed with depression and traits of BPD (but I apparently don't actually meet the criteria for BPD).

 

[detached]

Autism.
I haven't been diagnosed with depression. They just said that I'm showing signs of depression but my will to go to school and study was apparently stopping them from being able to diagnose me with it.
I'm quite fine with it though since I've never felt like I'm depressed. That might possibly be since I struggle to understand my own emotions.

I'm also (or I was) anorexic. However, there was no doctor that came to me and said I have anorexia. I just figured it out myself.

 

[lost_soul83]

I've basically been in mental health treatment since I was 11 ( I'm 36 now). They misdiagnosed me with depression for years and it wasn't until I was in my mid-20s that they diagnosed me with bipolar disorder, though I tend to have more depressive than manic episodes. When I was 18 I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and I also have a lot of arthritis all over my body, which makes moving very painful and I'm tired all the time. I just wanna ctb and be done with this life, this world and this body.

 

[HappyEnding]

I might have endometriosis but I can't afford a doctor's appointment, so I suffer alone.

 

[tiredofchronicpain]

Chronic pain, severe anxiety(sensorimotor ocd), panic attacks, depression, body dysmorphic disorder due to darkened and lost teeth and afraid to leave the house, avoidant personality disorder.
On my way to become a toothless monster with the only fate behind a door as I'm too afraid to get seen by others.

 

[Nihil]

Major depression with psychotic features (suicidal hallucinations), though the psychosis part has since been gone since being on sertraline (Zoloft). Also kind of feel like I suffer from PTSD at times, what with all the traumatic yuck I've been through, but I've yet to be diagnosed with it.

 

[Mr2005]

Diagnosed as having aspergers and body dysmorphic disorder but I don't place much credence in what they think. They've wasted my time for years and now I have to deal with that alone

 

[Raven40]

Bipolar 2 and mood disorder

 

[Xaphous]

Purposely denied any

 

[TAW122]

I was diagnosed with Aspergers when I was a teenager and earlier as a child, ADD and ADHD (which sorta went away as I've gotten older). I do still have lots of social anxiety and anxiety in general, it's remained about constant during my adult life.

 

[Deadgirl]

Major depressive disorder,social anxiety, and anorexia

 

[Quinlor]

Broken heart