How do your symptoms affect your life? Is there 'significant impairment' in your functioning? That's one way to know if you have a disorder.
For example, my symptoms have destroyed relationships, caused much turmoil in my family life, prevented me from attending classes, and lost me a job. I also ran up my credit cards and did weird things like buy thousands of dollars of illegal drugs and had threesomes out of the blue.
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age: 23
dx: bipolar I, ADHD-C, tourette's syndrome, OCD, trichotillomania, GAD, Social Phobia, BPD, RLS
current meds: depakote (divalproex sodium) 1000mg, abilify (aripiprazole) 4mg, cymbalta (duloxetine) 60mg, dexedrine (dexamphetamine) 35mg, ativan (lorazepam) 1mg prn, iron supplements
past meds: ritalin, adderall, risperdal, geodon, paxil, celexa, zoloft
other: individual talk therapy, CBT, group therapy, couple's therapy, hypnosis
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