Diagnosed with ADHD-PI (F90.0) and F61

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I have been thinking about asking this question for a long time, but don't know who or where to ask. If this is off topic, I apologize.

My official diagnosis is based on ICD-10 since I'm scandinavian, and what I'm told is that i have ADHD without hyperactivity (F90.0) and have been screened for personality disorders by a couple of psychiatrists, and got the diagnosis "mixed and other personality disorders" (F61) because i didn't meat the criteria for any specific disorder. The told me I scored high on OCPD, but not enough to get a diagnosis.

Because i have a lot of AS traits, they used the ADI-R and rejected any possibility of me having an autism spectrum disorder without talking to my parents, school teachers or even my wife. I have been in therapy for two years, and I'm on disability (not able to keep a job, or even do my own shopping).

I had to quit Ritalin because of psychosis and depression. Zoloft made me depressed with lots of additional unpleasant side-effects (some related to blood flow to an organ one uses as often as possible when married), was put on seroquel (for sleeping) ending up me almost killing my self before i quit. Now they have given up and wants to send me to school as an adult because of my strong, all-consuming computer/programming interests. The only problem is that I have no education at all, and probably won't get accepted. And not being able to leave the house, I can't really see that it would be possible even if my application was accepted.

Is it possible that they are wrong? How often is AS misdiagnosed as problems with attention and abnormal personality traits? Should i just accept that I'm screwed and there is nothing to be done? Or should I keep on searching for answers that make sense? I have this need to understand, and they won't help me...

Any feedback or advice would help

You can get help for things that aren't ASDs too. I don't know how likely it is that you'd be dealing with a misdiagnosis, but the diagnosis you have doesn't preclude you from getting help.

One of the people who I know who's most actively getting help has OCPD.

About 75% of people with autism could qualify for an ADHD-PI diagnosis (or adhd, don't remember which)

POT is not the best thing for me, it makes the panic attacks worse, and I end up living in my mind instead of reacting to the world around me. Amphetamine makes my social symptoms go away for a while, but I'd end up in a psychiatric institution in a couple of months. Ritalin does the same thing as amphetamine to me (10 years+ clean / former addict).

I don't handle norepinephrine very well either. Always a problem when I'm at the dentist... My heart rate drops, and I get panic attacks... probably the reason Ritalin and Amphetamines screw with my mind....

If most medication your psychiatrist perscribes is making things worse, I think you should go to a different psychiatrist.