I can't say because I am not a therapist or psychaitrist and self diagnosing and or diagnosing of friends can be dangerious because the person without being a professional can read more into tthe diagnosis and or miss key elements for that diagnosis that are not revieled to the general public. but you can find out for sure by asking your therapist for a Comprehensive Psychological evaluation. This is a test that professionals use as a diagnostic tool. The test is given by psychiatrists and psychologists, and the test takes anywhere between 4-8 hours depending on the clients being tested. The testing involves an interview (an hour or more), an IQ test (math- adding subtracting multiplying dividing geometry, algerbra, english comprehension and writing, short term, long term memory recall, logic, specific testing for various learning disorders, and a computerized questionaire that tests for the 7 major disorders in the DSM IV TR manual such as Borderline Personality Disorder, Schitzophrenia, Schitzoaffective Disorder, Narcasistic Personality Disorder....I can't remember what the other 3 are. The psychologist/psytchaitrist also adds other questionaires for example the DDIS and DES if DID is suspected and so on depending on what they are looking for. It takes anywhere from one week to four weeks for the computerized questionaires to be sent out, scored and returned to the testing professional, then the psychiatrist/psychologist writes up the report including the test results, interview, and IQ test, and adds their treatment recommendation.
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