I have Aspergers, OCD and anxiety, I think I am bipolar too?

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ADHD is one of those disorders where ppl usually underestimate the severity of their symptoms - usually until their late 20s/early 30s when they start to figure out that something is wrong.

I was diagnosed with ADD a short while ago and eventhough I have about 50 psychology books at home (approx. 30 about autism) and eventhough I know my brother has ADHD I never thought I could have it. I have to mention I dx myself correctly in the past with: autism (eventhough it was always a depate if I have autism or "just" autistic tendencies), gender identity disorder, depression (I've a bipolar suspicion from my psychiatrist but neither him nor I are 100% sure about it) and a traumic anxiety reaction.

But with ADD it was different. I even didn't really belief it when I was dx with. My psychiatrist dx me with, because now I'm comming since a year to him and every time I tell him: "I can't concentrate". I just thought it's because of depression" (well partly it was, it got worse then).

A fiew weeks ago I ordered some books about ADHD/ADD and watched myself carefully. Then it was the first time were I noticed it's propably right.
I just want to say with that, that self-dx doesn't work in every single case/with every single disorder, eventhough you have a lot of knowledge about psychiatry.



Funny that you say that. ADHD is this psychiatric disorder researchers found the most genes.

OMG ... you just put many of my problems and worries in one post ! !

You are me

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http://www.wrongplanet.net/posts182151-start420.html

I've "self-DX'ed" and I'm actually right about mine. There was no other option. I went to a psychiatrist, I was told there was nothing wrong with me. I ended up in hospital a few months later.

It turns out that my self-DX of bipolar was correct, and that the other self DX I'd made before, Borderline, was also correct.

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well I didn't how on earth can anxiety be so bad ? how many people know it can cause black outs , seziure type complaints or be so bad you can't get out of bed shaking, so weak so much pain etc etc "most people" I think it's safe to assume think it's just sweaty palm before a job interview

I'm so glad I can't understand a single word you're saying.

I self-diagnosed AS and ADHD and am now diagnosed for them.

I only really self-diagnose when the conditions are causing me extreme issues that I have no choice but to receive treatment for.

My anxiety can also be pretty incapacitating. And yes they give me seizures. Secondary generalized ones.
I saw a psychiatrist about PTSD but didn't say that's what I thought I had. This time I was leaving it all up to him. Adjustment disorder he said. I'm never letting the psychiatrist decide again. I've received no help for my PTSD. I've had to deal with it all on my own.

I guess I could say I've self-diagnosed bipolar but I'm also self-treating it and not with alcohol. I'm trying to get on top of symptoms and avoid getting into situations. I'm not always successful but I think if I dropped the label and waited to be probably diagnosed I would just think of myself as going insane. Not knowing what's going on can be more damaging than self-diagnosis.

Whilst I'm fed up with the number of teenagers who decide they're bipolar due to being happy one moment and sad the next, that's not the case with me. And from what you've said on here, I don't think you're simply deciding you're bipolar because you're happy one minute and sad the next, or because it seems like a glamorous diagnosis (and believe me, there are people who do think that, and think that declaring themselves bipolar because Steven Fry, Demi Lovato and Catherine Zeta-Jones suffer from it, and thinks that makes them trendy).

I was diagnosed first with "nothing wrong with you" by a psychiatrist and then "Mixed anxiety depressive disorder". The result of both of those diagnosis's was that I received absolutely no help for them, and my problem was considered to be "mild", so I wasn't even referred for help. Which of course, only meant I ended up in hospital a few months later.

The difference though, was that I told the psychiatrist that I thought I had bipolar. And what was there reply?

"Oh no, your moods don't change fast enough for to be bipolar. DISCHARGED."

Sweaty palm before a job interview is what is called "normal". That's not anxiety.

Anxiety is when you have an overactive nervous system that means the flight or fight mechanism (which is usually only triggered when a person is in danger) is triggered sometimes at the smallest thing. I have panic disorder and that can lead to me believing that the panic attacks that I have could quite literally kill me, due to the fact that feels as though I am suffocating, have a tightness in my chest that makes me believe I am having a heart attack, and sometimes, vomitting.

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I agree people are idiots I do not comment on peoples bad back etc as I am not a Dr nor do i have one people should remain silent on these matters as it only confirms what a fool these persons are the saying better to keep quite etc .

Any how I suffer from "severe" anxiety disorder + panic disorder and the best adive I got here is don't fight the "SCREAM " do you like that painting Sunshower like a bad trip if you fight it it only makes it worse so I "go with the flow" even if it makes me an abnoixious giggling @ lucky for me this sort of stuff happens at the end of the day so few witness it in fact I see diasabilty services this week and will ask for a morning job as the nervous energy is accumlative so in the morining I'm usually sort of ok .

Good thing with a DX and medication you can work through it all to manage better I had no idea heat was bad for persons like us, in fact I was quite clueless in the past

why would you be happy that you can't understand a word I'm saying

It's strange condition for years I was throwing up it came out of now where than it almost pretty much stopped even before I started taking Paxil (aropax in oz)

I was in the same boat he didn't want me to put me on the pension, funny I had quotes from builders many many in fact and they never returned a quote clearly they could see I was $%^& up , one did, though he charged a mega premium for the job , went with him as I was running out of options

yes, it's a good painting.

Odd, I've been told to fight it. Avoiding things make it worse. But then I guess it becomes a balance between avoiding all and everything that makes you anxious, and not doing things which are anxiety inducing.

A few people have seen my panic attacks. It's embarrasing.

though you don't have anxiety you see the depression songs /paintings I see here and else where may as well be alien to me , The Scream the 1 st time I saw it I had an ah ha moment and to think druggies chase this type of " feeling " since your an artist why not post a depressive painting , perhaps even a original Sunshower

really by whom ?