You've gotta be f***ing with me doc

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This morning at around 7 AM (or about 11 PM if you're american) I started feeling a little..funny..I felt like I had to jump around, I felt brilliant, I started running up and down the house, I started speaking to myself incoherently.

When I began to play the piano (in a rather original way) my mother awoke and came downstairs and had no idea what was going on, I was unable to explain anything to her at the time and i began to feel disturbed. I ran outside I began running around the block, then did the same indoors. I became apperent there was something quite wrong with me when I proceeded into the bathroom I cut my wrists several times with a razor (I don't recall why). I lashed out at my sister and continued my activities.

After 9 AM my mother brought to the doctor, from there I was sent to the hospital Accident & Emergency, on my way i talked to strangers and wouldn't shut up, yammering about anything that came to mind. At the hospital they checked my wounds and I had a confusing interview with some psychiatrist, attempting to explain my sympthoms as clearly as possible:
- Agitation
- Elation
- racing thoughts
- incoherence and confusion

And what did this psychiatrist say after two discussion at around 11 AM?, a urine sample test later..

"All this is due to aspergers, you're just just nervous about going to a new clinic, I have a lot of experience with manic patients and this doesn't match up with what I know, this is anxiety"

What.
No really, what?
And I explained to him that this isn't that first this had happened and I had had hypomania before, he blankly said "that was'nt hypomania" how the HELL does he know!?

Well, that's all I have to say

Sincerly, a very pissed off person whose only problem is aspergers according to every damn therapist I meet.

And this is why I don't trust psychologists.

Some doctors sure like to scapegoat the aspie label.

They need to deal with you and get you out quickly

NEXT!

Oh my.

Wow. Just reading your description, it blares "hypomania."

If you ever see that Psychologist again, please be sure to tell him you mentioned his conclusion to a whole group of Aspergians over a wide age dispersion and they all agreed unanimously that he's full of sh*t, doesn't have a clue what he's doing and should find a new profession immediately before he gets somebody killed.

Wow...symptoms are due to Aspergers? That's odd because in all the years I have been studying this syndrome, I don't recall anything about mania.

Sorry Phonic, I hope you do find someone more competent then the doc who thinks your symptoms are due to AS. That's just weird.

go to another doc before you get hurt.

Did this doctor get his degree from a clown collage

He got that from a urine sample? That what, proved you were on your meds so that couldn't possibly be hypomania OR his fault, so it must be autism? Find someone else.

I appreciate the support, it's nice to feel validated, and my mother agrees with me (I'm so thankful for that)

some specific things I wanna say:

Verdandi:

I am of the opinion that this was not hypomania, the very definition of hypomania is that it is mania whereby you still have fine control over yourself, you're still thinking clearly and such. IF this was a very short mania.
I'm not going to go right out and say "I'm bipolar" but it's just something I mull over a lot, if I did have it I could theoretically fit into any of it's categories. I do beleive I have a mood disorder, I just want put all my eggs in one basket and say it's any one of them.

it is truly very upsetting to be told all my issues are due to aspergers when I know there is a lot more going on, and perhaps the most insulting thing this doc said that my "episode" was due to anxiety over having to move to a group home in the future: he had zero basis in this, never have I felt anxiety aobut that - it's very far fetched and I called him out on it without getting a proper reply.

Wilard


I doubt i'll see him again but I wish I could see him when I'm thinking straight, but even then i think he'd stand by what he said

I suspect the main reason he was so stubborn about it is because he happened to give a call to a doctor that ran my case a few months ago - this particular phyche was the "boss" at this place and had barely any contact with me, but had already made her mind up that I exclusively have aspergers and social anxiety - despite my depression (among other things). She was plainly put a moron who thought she had me figured out based on a few reports, whenever she made a statement about me she tended to get me all wrong.

I'm really starting to understand the resentment people here have over doctors..our opinions don't seem to matter at all to them?

The doctor in the hospital saw you one time, for a short time, and said your problems were due to Asperger's? Maybe Chuck Norris needs to Roundhouse Kick some sense into this doc.

I hate people who try to pigeon hole you. That definitely sounds like some kind of mania or mood disorder to me - and must have been awfully frustrating! I hope you get the care you need,from another dr.

I think I have manic episodes but never like that. I went into find out what was wrong with me and came back as a sinus infection but the symptoms only covered part of what I told the doctor and nurse.

My understanding is that mania tends to include psychosis - I didn't get the sense of psychosis from your description. I also know people who experience hypomania and they don't always have fine control over themselves. One guy I know gets extremely impulsive and picks fights with people over nothing - online, anyway. I don't know what he does face to face. But he doesn't give the impression of fine control when he's having an episode.

I'm not saying outright that you are bipolar, but that what you're describing sounds a lot like bipolar, and does not sound much like autism.



Yeah, that makes no sense. And anxiety doesn't really work like that. I mean you can get restless, but I think that's it for the overlap.