Clinically Diagnosed

[michel]

On the other hand, it is my hope that my own personal experiences have helped me to be able to better understand the struggles of others and might give me a little bit of aid in helping them.

Here here! The plus side of sufferring from various disorders is that it makes you a more understanding person (usually).

Me ? A "Wierd" form of agoraphobia - with me it starts up as soon as I see someone I know in the street - if I am surrounded by strangers, I'm O.K; people I know, and I go into panic attacks.

FMS, Arthritis, Exzema, asthma, osteoporosis.........and all the side effects that come with those (self harming, wanting to live the life of a recluse etc........); the one I really feel sorry for is my wife!

 

[evearael]

Clinical diagnosis (mental illness) is a detached label that is harmful when people unwittingly wear the label as a badge. For example, in my job, management suggest to workers they access an Employee Assistance Program if they have a problem with them. It is used as form of putdown. Be careful! Real assistance is great but protect your confidentiality (friends and family only).

No. I have never been clinically diagnosed with a disorder.

Oz

Your concern is certainly valid. I certainly don't advertise the PTSD... besides, now that I'm aware of it, I've got it mostly under control (yay!). However, I do talk about the rape and sexual abuse (primarily with people I trust) because it is the shroud of silence that protects the perpetrators and enables them to prey again. I want to encourage other victims to come forward and seek appropriate medical and psychological help as needed, as well as hopefully going to the police and officially reporting it.

 

[Bishka]

Clinical diagnosis (mental illness) is a detached label that is harmful when people unwittingly wear the label as a badge. For example, in my job, management suggest to workers they access an Employee Assistance Program if they have a problem with them. It is used as form of putdown. Be careful! Real assistance is great but protect your confidentiality (friends and family only).

No. I have never been clinically diagnosed with a disorder.

Oz

I hardly wear mine as a badge, but I'm not going to put my disorders and who I am in the back corner and pretend everything is fine and dandy. Much of what I have has made me who I am today, and I am proud of myself.

 

[lizskid]

Diagnosed with Arthritis, fibromyalgia, asthma and allergies to some stuff outside. A bunch of autoimmune stuff, so not really good. I get along ok, and don't share it much.

 

[robtex]

Diagnosed with Arthritis, fibromyalgia,

A lot of people get fibromyalgia. I wonder if it affects women more than men? Interesting only Michel listed osteoporosis. I thought it was much more common and the medical industry targets women which makes me think med stats say more women get it. On the mental disorders I wonder if doctors feel pressured for reasons of financial gain to sometimes make a diagnosis? I think as fast past as life is for many of us anxiety is a predicable bi-product.

I have never been diagnosised with anything to avoid avoiding the question. I haven't seen a psychatrist since I was a kid (part of schooling to screen kids) but was never diagnosised with anything.

 

[Jaymes]

How do you get "clinically diagnosed" with, for example, depression?

There's a specific set of symptoms that have to be met that's listed in the DSMIV that have to be met for something to be diagnosed as depression.

 

[zombieharlot]

Yeah that sucks. You need to keep bouncing through them till you find one that you click with and then it is excellent.

Yeh, that's what I hear. Unfortunately, I'll have to wait awhile before I can afford to try more out.

 

[dbakerman76]

I have been diagnosed with severe depression and an anxiety disorder. I have been on several medications for the last 13 years. If I didn't have it, I think I would be far less creative than I am now. Somehow the depression seems to fuel my creativity. My most depressed times are often my most creative.

 

[porkchop]

A couple of messed up discs in my back. One herniated, the other ruptured and degenerated.
Got me surgery for the herniated one - HUGE improvement with complete alleviation of the neurologic sysmptoms and a significant amount of the pain. It also allowed me to keep doing my firefighter job.

Eventually I'll probably have a disc replacement on the other one, but the first surgery helped so much that I can deal with the pain from that one a bit longer...
Less physically painful.


I would probably be diagnosed with PTSD and depression if I ever went to a doc for it. Instead, in the last 6 months or so, I've found that by not only praying, but living by:

Phillipians 4:6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

7 And the peace of God which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ​

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I have found Peace with God. Finding this undescribable inner Peace has not cured my depression, but it sure is making it a bit more possible to plug along through life... It's also allowed me to forgive the person(s) who caused the PTSD.... which has been a burden lifted in a different way...

It's really encouraging to see how you fully rely on God for help during these challenging times, snow. Your on my prayer list. God blessxxx

 

[mostly harmless]

Is there or has there been anything that you have been clincially diagnosed with?

Fibromyalgia, Myofacial Pain Syndrome, Arthritis, Depression


How has it helped you (or not helped you) in your life?

Helped: I've really haad to slow down and learn to stop and smell the roses, I've had to learn to accept and even ask for help from others..

Not helped: I can't do very many things anymore. I get tired very fast. The weather usually has adverse effects on me when rain or cold is coming.


How would your life be different if you didn't have it?

Well, I wouldn't be in pain constantly. I wouldn't be battling overwhelming fatigue and brain fog everyday. And, I would be able to go out and do stuff without needing to rest every five minutes. I could do more with my daughter, too. She has never known me not sick.

Edit: It can be mental/physically/etc.

I sometimes feel like I am a shadow just existing through the days.

 

[Ozzie]

Being honest and saying that there is something wrong is not being proud of the diagnosis. Is there something wrong with admitting that you take anti-depressants?

Besides, even though this is a public forum, it is confedential. Unless I decide to give out my personal information, none of you have any idea who I am.

No issue here because you are anonymous. I suppose disclosure is a problem in a public life, or the public service. There is nothing wrong with disclosure per se. But it is not a question of right and wrong. That is why clinical diagnosis is impersonal. So is the fact that it might be used to discriminate against you if the information falls into the wrong hands. Many clinical diagnoses are temporary, but the label "clinically diagnosed" could stick.

 

[Sunstone]

I've recently been diagnosed with Post Feathers Stress Syndrom.

 

[Ozzie]

I've recently been diagnosed with Post Feathers Stress Syndrom.

Ugly Buck's night?