How many psychiatric comorbidities do you have?

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From what I know, I have only ADHD-C in addition to AS.

It's hard to know whom you mean TheygoMew, if you don't quote AND just use the word "you". o.O
Of course I assume you mean me, because I started this thread and of course I write back.

But for the rest:
No offence, but I have no clue what you want to say with the rest of your post.

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My diagnoses are definitely not "filler." Not defensive, just pondering what you wrote, TheyGoMew.

I agree about meds. I do have a med that has worked wonders for my anxiety, and another to help me sleep. But I do not love the idea of constantly stacking more prescriptions on until something gives.

i also have schizoid personality disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.

i am not very friendly.

I also don't get what the amount of diagnosis have to do with a "filler"?
I mean seriously. I was missdx 3 times:
1) with ADHD-disposition with autistic like tendencies from a shrink that toled me that I can't be possible autistic because I went to a normal school
2) with the suspicion of delusion, because I talked about "overload"
3) with the suspicion of Borderline because the shrink toled me ASD is just a modern diagnosis and I wouldn't possibly have gender identity disorder and well, we didn't come along very well.

But I don't have those diagnoses anymore. Also the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is sure now, I'm taking hormones for nearly two years now and so on.

Every time it was "just" one disorder from ppl who didn't have a clue about ASD.
They wanted to keep things easy and where mad in the end that it didn't worked out.

1) Well I got special therapy for two years as a little child, because of my problems with the dyslexia. I actually don't have this diagnosis anymore, but in my psychiatric writings it very often mentions my dyslexia in childhood. I'm comming from a "dyslexic-family". My mom had dyslexia as a child, my brother had it, my aunt had it, my cousin had it and my other cousin has it severe and still has it. So it's deffinetly no filler.

2) Later on there was added my HFA diagnoses, who is deffinetly correct, with my speech delay and so on. Maybe it's "just" PDD-NOS because I improved much and my social understanding is quite well, but I still have autistic difficulties, but those exact diagnostic lables doesn't matter to me. As a child I was very typical.

3) Later on, as a teenager I got heavily depressed, I even had to got to the hospital. There I was "filled up" with meds, but "just" because of one lable: depression. So you deff. don't need many to do this. But nothing really worked and I had huge side effects. Those side-effects and the pressure of the hospital lead to a suicide attempt with "agitated depression" and a trauma afterwards. I didn't take any meds after that for two years. That's why I'm just taking agomelatonin at the moment. My shrink and I discussed lithium carbonate, because I made good experiences with lithium orotate once. This was my decision. That was one of the reasons bipolar was discussed in the first place, because lithium orotate was one of the fiew meds that worked against my mood problems and my half brother had schizophrenia and those two are genetically linked. But we first want to try lithium carbonate after my operation who is hopefully next month and because of my GID. But that's also the reason why I'm still after years under "bipolar suspicion", because my shrink toled me right now I'm "just" dx with depression, because it's first possible to tell for sure after the stress because of the GID went away, I'm through the opteraion and all that stuff. Well, it seems he is pretty carefull with lables.
My mood is also the only reason I would take medication for, no matter how you call it, I so much don't care.

4) And my tics, well they are pretty obvious:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnBW0-J5UhU[/youtube]

But I even don't have them officially dx, because I so don't care anymore what shrinks write about me and I don't want treatment because of them. Usually they are not that strong all the time, they come and go, but testosterone made them more severe, especially in the beginning.

I have been diagnosed with different things but I voted 3. I have ADD, anxiety, and OCD. Though I do question if I really do have ADD or not since I read it was overdiagnosed in the 90's and too many kids had it when they really didn't. I was even drugged for it too and it was the wrong medication. Why did my parents keep me on it is a mystery to me if they knew it wasn't the right pills. I remember being on lot of pills and most of them were vitamins. I felt so broken. Then in 6th grade, it was only one kind, then in middle school, it was three kind. Buspar, birth control, and imaprimine (sp). I was finally on the right medication. Now I am not on any even though I should be for anxiety.

But my mother knew ADD was not the correct diagnoses because it didn't explain everything and the treatment I was getting for it wasn't working so she knew I had something else. Even all the other labels I had never explained everything until AS came along.

I heared about AD(H)D and Borderline PD, that those are diagnosis that can't get dx 100% exactly in a lot of cases, what explains the high pobularity of those diagnosis.

Also the overlapping between AD(H)D and ASD is very high. Some say a lot of autistics also have AD(H)D, some say just a fiew cases and it just looks simmilar. I have the same trouble with Bipolar actually.

Anxiety issues and auditory processing disorder. Its interesting how all three come together and contribute to my social awkwardness. I think anxiety problems is common in aspies however I had anxiety probs since I was 8 or 9. Social anxiety makes my face tense and my brain tighten, with aspergers I dont know what to do anyways, and with auditory processing disorder I cant always make out what people are saying and sometimes i dont know that they are talking to me exasperating my trouble with reading social cues. It also makes it very difficult to socialize in loud enviorenments causing me to go silent in big crowds.

ADHD and AS for me as well. Might have other stuff in all those psych records too, but I don't wanna dig it up just to see if I'm right.

Just one that I know of -- panic disorder. At least the only thing I'm on meds for. I guess I could have included Social Anxiety as well, but since that is a trait of both AS and Panic Disorder, I just put it in the same pot.

asd, ocd and gad

It was underdiagnosed in the 90s, and undermedicated when diagnosed.

However, that certainly does not mean you were not misdiagnosed. Also, it is really frustrating to read stories from people who were on the wrong medication, because how did the doctors or the parents or simply anyone not catch on and see about stopping or trying something different? It's ridiculous to make a child take meds that aren't helping.

My brother was never dx with anything because my parents didn't care about labels.
As a kid my brother stuttered, had slight dyslexia and was highly hyperactive.

He came mostly over them, but still needs more exercise than others.

I seriously ask myself why my parents never got us dx as children (just me and just with dyslexia later on)?

OCD, anxiety and schizophrenia.

I saw several "possible" conditions in the diagnostic papers, they were GAD, OCD, ODD, Tourette's and schizofrenia.

You would propably need a very long and intensive testing to find out for sure and most shrinks don't want that, if it's getting too intensive.
But Tourette's should be pretty easy to dx correctly in most cases.