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Old May 06, 2012, 04:26 PM
Astridetal Astridetal is offline
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Thanks everyone for your validation. I can relate to feeling you're going to get "caught". I was not taken seriously by former therapists and doctors, who told me my behavior was all deliberate. Now I constantly fear being told such things, and yet I tell them myself all the time.

@AmandaLouise: my therapist is a psychologist. She is qualified to administer the SCID-D. I don't know whether she is authorized to open "diagnosis-treatment combinations" as they're called in insurance jargon, but she works in close cooperation with a psychiatrist (I'm in-patient) who I know is authorized. She didn't use the SCID-D as the only tool to diagnose me. In fact I think I said in my original post that I was diagnosed in 2010 based on clinical judgment. Anyway, my diagnosis is valid now according to the protocols and according to insurance legalese.
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Current DX (December 2019): autism spectrum disorder, unspecified personality disorder
Current RX (December 2019): Abilify 30mg, Celexa 40mg, Ativan 1mg PRN