View Single Post
 
Old Dec 31, 2012, 03:31 PM
birdcrazy's Avatar
birdcrazy birdcrazy is offline
Veteran Member
 
Member Since: Sep 2009
Location: Southern Michigan
Posts: 516
Well, I have a couple of diagnoses on my chart, but I still have symptoms that don't seem to go with them. My current diagnosis is in fact Schizoaffective Disorder and Anxiety NOS. But it's more complicated than that.

One is the fact I was severely disordered as a child to. As a child I presented differently, but one doctor had the opinion that my childhood problems could be a manifestation of the same disorder or disorders I have now. As a child according to the records for example it sounds like I had ADHD. As an adult, people tell me that I act like I have ADHD, but when I read stuff about it, I think that probably I'm really mild in that area now because I actually don't relate to it, but I don't know.

Another problem is I have brought up a couple of things before and they blamed it on what I was currently diagnosed even though I had never read that my current diagnosis could do that.

I do have a tenancy of over thinking past and current symptoms. I actually don't sometimes know what to call them! For example autism has stimming and ADHD has fidgeting. I have one of these behaviors but well, maybe my nail biting is just a fidget, but if I am standing up what do I call the twisting around movement that i always start doing?

I really don't know how to bring this issue up again. Symptoms overlap so much. For actually what I am diagnosed with and stuff I suspect I have, I have some symptoms but I am missing other symptoms that are major to the disorder. Like if I really am schizophrenic I am missing the voices, for asperger's, I have a few symptoms but I can read non-verbal cues.
__________________
It's as simple as I love birds...