Did actual doctors, over many years...

Did actual doctors, over many years, diagnose your mental illness or do you just "feel "that you have it based on online tests and symptoms?

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Why would you need multiple doctors and a long period of time to diagnose a mental illness with clear diagnostic criteria? One sounds like plenty to me.

Sometimes you are such a textbook image of a mental illness that, if you don't qualify for it, it might as well not exist. My Vietnam vet dad doesn't need an official PTSD diagnosis for it to be incredibly obvious to all around him that he has it.

Because an actual mental illness is not as simple as placing a few checks on a test and being diagnosed with something from a list. It requires multiple talks, tests, period on drugs and to see the reactions to them with renewed talks, observations and tests. One doctor is enough, but you're almost always given a second opinion from a few other doctors if you need to take up the illness for benefits and support. Unless you have a meme seasonal depression or some other imaginary sadness. Then yes, one is enough.

lmao, you're overcomplicating this. In the real world, you're usually diagnosed with something after the first or second session.

That depends on the mental illness. Your experiences are not indicative of the spectrum of illnesses.

>in the real world
US?

Yeah, I live in the US. Almost everyone I've known who's gone to a therapist has been diagnosed after the first session.

>bragging about US mental health care
This explains a lot.

Maybe, but the complete opposite end of the spectrum you describe is worse. It takes "many years" to diagnose someone with a mental illness? Fuck off, that's just waffling around to an absurd degree.

Yes.
Was diagnosed with depression 15 years ago.
Was diagnosed with anxiety and moderate OCD about 4 years ago.
Both by a doctor.

Hoping this is the year I get my shit sorted, I'd hate to have to make my family sad by becoming an hero.

>Did actual doctors, over many years, diagnose your mental illness
Not voer many years over a month or so in inpatient.

>not taking 45 years to diagnose you
baka, diagnosis invalid

That's ok. I don't care what I was diagnosed as and hate using it as a crutch.

> go to doc
> open up to doc and tell him I feel depressed
> laughs at my story
> "go home kid we have people that actually need help"

i'm pretty sure i have schizoid personality "disorder" and according to doctors most who have it do not seek treatment

why would i? i never went to the doctor for that purpose. i only go to the doctor if i need a prescription, or i have an open wound

so, no: i have never been diagnosed. nor did i ever have an opportunity to get diagnosed

>gone to a therapist
why would i do that? i would never pay for that

Yes. Got diagnosed with depression by any clinical doctor and mental health specialist who talked to me for an extended period of time since I was 16, till now that I'm 26.

It's diagnosed and I currently have to fake improvements so they feel like they're doing something right.
The first few months I swapped between 6 different meds and now they have me stuck on quitapine 3000,naltrexone 50 and mirtazapine 45.
They don't help and I've told them that but they don't listen, they never do. So now I have to revert back to my fake smile and pretend it's working just to get them off my back.

>went to some therapist
>told her my problems
>"yeah, that's called social anxiety, user"
Does this count? I mean, mental illnesses are social constructions, there's no valid way to prove that you have one anyways

Diagnosed autism reporting

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actual doctors diagnosed me but it wasn't over many years. so i suppose it doesn't count
i would rather my diagnosis not count than spend more time with the lot of them though