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Originally Posted by H3rmit
For me, I'm just more aware of it. Thanks for a great thread topic!
I don't officially have any diagnosis. I have a tendency to get depressed and not enjoy life overall, and I'm frustrated how much of my life was spent solving social/emotional and social anxiety problems. I'm not where I could have been with some decent help early on. So, yeah.
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Hi H3rmit!

Yes, actually, while I'm sure I probably have several diagnoses depending on which professional's file you might look at, I don't know what any of them are. No one I've ever seen has actually said: okay... this is what you have... bingo! I also did not begin to address my social / emotional problems until I was in my 50's. (I did make a few half-hearted attempts prior to that but nothing came of them so after a while I just gave up.)
I sometimes wonder where I might have ended up if I had. I have said a number of times that when I was young no one wanted to get me the help I needed mostly because it just wasn't done back then. And now, nobody really wants to be bothered because I'm old & most of my life is in the past anyway. So sometimes it feels like I lost out from both ends. And, I guess that's part of the reason that I've finally come to the point where I say: just give me the med's & forget all the rest of it. It's too late to worry about it at this point!