How many things have you been diagnosed with in your life

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You can list all diagnoses regardless if whether they have been correct or incorrect

1) Major depression
2) Dysthymia
3) Bulimia
4) Bipolar
5) Asperger's

6) OCD (how could I forget about that one)

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Zero. My mom doesn't believe in getting diagnosed and doesn't understand that ADHD and such are real disorders. She just puts it as "everyone has their struggles."

Your mom does make a good point regardless as to whether I agree or disagree with her. We all DO have our unique set of struggles, as do many other people. However I wonder what she would say if her child had schizophrenia instead and had to be labeled to receive medications.

1)NVLD
2) ADD (would now be called ADHD inattentive sub-type)
3)Asperger's syndrome
4) Generalized Anxiety Disorder and panic attacks
5) Major Depression

1) Non-specific Developmental Delays (not sure if this counts but this is the first label I got when I was about 2 years old).
2) Depression.
3) Asperger's Syndrome.
I was tested for ADD/ADHD in second grade but wasn't ever diagnosed with it.

Just AS/HFA as far as I know. I had a lot of anxiety issues and other problems as a child, but as far as I am aware I was only ever treated/corrected for physical things like not walking or looking at people properly, not holding my hands properly etc.

The diagnosis happened about 10 years ago now, after I was having more and more trouble focussing on my work. I went to see someone privately for an ADD assessment because all my life I felt like a fraud who was seen as smart but struggling immensely paddling just below the surface to try desperately to keep up with people, not understanding a great deal.

The private neuro pointed me towards ASDs, although I had felt since my late teens that I was "half autistic". I later saw a retired psychiatrist who confirmed ASD/HFA but as far as I am aware none of this is in my official records. I later saw another psych for follow ups.

My GP prescribed ADD meds for a while but did not seem to believe the diagnosis so never put it in my records. I am not entirely sure about it myself to be honest. A friend who knows a lot about autism thinks I definitely show "autistic personality" but I do not really think my problems are severe enough to warrant the diagnosis. None of the 3 specialists I saw seemed to agree with this though (with my view that I am not severe enough for diagnosis) although none did a thorough assessment in my view.

Mine would've. She probably would've called me possessed and taken me for an exorcism. I mean, I get it that "everyone has their struggles", but I would prefer that to mean that things like autism would be taken in stride as being just one of life's struggles, with which you might need help, but which doesn't make you some kind of alien creature that has a life completely unlike everybody else's. It'd be nice if people were a little more casual and less dramatic about somebody having autism.

Let's see... what've I been diagnosed with?

Oppositional-defiant disorder. Complete misdiagnosis by a quack. I was nine and my real problem was that my stepdad liked to hit me.
Depression. Quite correct; also recurrent.
OCD. Incorrect--they mistook autistic special interests for OCD obsessions.
PTSD. Correct, but currently in remission.
ADHD. Kind of correct--the symptoms overlap with autism.
Generalized anxiety disorder. Yes, I'm often anxious, but the things I worry about are real threats. So, incorrect.
Borderline personality disorder. Totally incorrect; diagnosed on the basis of a single symptom. I had no other symptoms of BPD.
Asperger's Disorder--My first ASD diagnosis. Technically incorrect, but it got me the services I needed.
Autistic Disorder--Another psychologist's idea of what I had. Would've been correct in childhood, but I'm too good with language now.
Rett syndrome--A clerical error, and incorrect. I haven't got the MECP2 mutation or the neurological symptoms. I got it corrected pretty quickly.
PDD-NOS--As good a diagnosis as any; I just call it "autism".

My mom tried to diagnose me with ODD about a year and half after my AS diagnosis. I think that was her way of making it my fault.

Social Anxiety Disorder
Clinical Depression
Gender Identity Disorder
Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Unofficially diagnosed with Asperger's

PDD-NOS
Asperger's
Major Depressive Disorder
General Anxiety Disorder (nearly cured)
Dysthymia
Nonverbal Learning Disorder
Avoidant Personality Disorder
amblyopia (officially cured)
strabismus (nearly cured)

Of these, I think they are all accurate except for the autistic disorders and the AvPD.

Autism
Depression (x2)
OCD

And many physical disabilities. Several of which haven't been quite correct.

I once visited a neurosurgeon who diagnosed me with something. The neurologist said no. Apparently, those 2 sets of professionals disagreeing isn't that unusual. Unfortunately, I never got a diagnosis for the issues I was having; but did discover that I had nocturnal epilepsy and a brain condition, which despite having tests for both as a child, they were both missed.

As a Teen -

Anorexia
Schizophrenia (retracted when diagnosed bipolar)
Bipolar
Depression

As an adult -

ADHD
Major Depressive Disorder, Recurrent
Anxiety Disorder, NOS
Borderline Personality Disorder, Cluster B type with dissociative episodes
Asperger's Disorder

I have been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and Epilepsy however my second diagnosis which is Epilepsy is incorrect as my body isn't suited to anti epileptic drugs and makes things a lot worse.

Had a duh moment. Sorry.

It's funny how so many people were diagnosed with 2 or more mutually exclusive disorders like PDD NOS and Asperger's or AS and a personality disorder ect. Also, Tyrion and I were officially diagnosed with a disorder that doesn't officially exist! -NVLD. Callista, you almost have a collection of all the disorders in the PDD category of the DSM IV TR (atleast you can say you were diagnosed with them all at one point). The only one you're missing is Childhood Dintegrative Disorder. They're changing it in a month, though, anyway. I guess it's a good argument for why they need to change it: they can't distinguish between the different PDD's. They really should add NVLD too.

major depression
asthma
IBS
anxiety
conjunctivitis
OCD
shingles
chicken pox

I think I've had more.