Talking to a Pdoc is a good idea, imo, for a few reasons. Firstly, you find yourself struggling -- that in itself is a good indication that it is worthwhile. Actually, it doesn't make labelling it necessary.

A few reasons/thoughts on this... one, it's not a good idea to self-diagnose (which is related to why we here on the forums cannot diagnose). There are simply more factors than we may be aware of. While reading can definitely strike a chord, it's not conclusive. This brings to mind... there is a phenomenon that is common in people taking a psych course in college, wherein one starts to worry that they have "everything", because they recognize symptoms in themselves, not realizing that to some degree, many (most, even) symptoms occur in perfectly "normal" people**. Diagnosis is determining the matter of degree symptoms may or may not interfere with functioning. Even then there is variation in severity to consider. It's a complicated business and rather inexact. Soooo, even for professionals, it takes awhile to sort through. They most often will not diagnose right away. This is a good thing. Even being well-versed in a subject, it takes awhile to sift through. Even with that, diagnoses sometimes change (see above... rather inexact). Sometimes things are pretty clear cut, sometimes not. That's ok. It brings us back around to the label being less important than treatment that works.

**(Just want to be totally clear that I'm not saying that's happening(!) It's just an interesting phenomenon.)

Being informed is a great thing (I make a point of it too! ), but in terms of diagnosing.... not hugely useful and all too tempting to self-dx.) It can provide things to discuss that concern you though, and help in being a partner in managing any dx you might have.

Don't be reluctant based on the fact that disagreement exists. Virtually nothing is without it after all! (And psych stuff? Oh yeah. Overlapping symptoms, degrees of severity, among many other factors... pretty much unavoidable! ) That doesn't keep things from working though! What helps is what's important, not whether everyone agrees.

(Hehe, speaking of reading up....Interesting timing... last week, my psych gave me a book to read, based on some (non BP) "stuff" we'd been discussing. It was an interesting read, and I made a number of notes (referencing page numbers as well), on points central to the concept, and how they don't fit at all. It should be an interesting conversation! She never even suggested that might be what was going on, she was throwing it out there to see how it might or might not intersect my experience of these symptoms. She's big on the partnership thing, and figuring things out together. )