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Originally Posted by IndieVisible
This post will examine how easily people follow. Regardless what diagnoses we are given, patience go home start researching their diagnoses and immediately begin mirroring it, they begin to say "yup that's me totally!" and feel better they at least fit some where and know what's wrong with them.
The reality of this procedure is pdocs do not always agree on each others diagnoses and often are wrong. Also I think so many people want to fit in some where so bad they accept what ever they are told because at least they finally fit some where and know what's wrong with them! Not all of course but certainly most.
So it doesn't matter what you are diagnosed, bipolar, pdsd, bpd, you go home start reading about it and begin identifying and mirroring it. But how can that be?
Well first of all many of the traits and symptoms overlap or exist in other disorder. Many of us can relate to other symptoms and traits as well. The moment we are told that's us, we begin to mirror that even more. I can personally relate to and identify with a number of disorders in various categories. One could easily adapt even further to what they are told they are.
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I agree this can happen, that's why diagnosis should always be taken with a grain of salt. Before I was diagnosed I thought something was physically wrong with me and made numerous visits to my primary care doctor and the local hospital. Eventually a cute nurse and a few doctors recommended me to see a mental health professional after I described to them how severe my anxiety was. They were going to give me some benzos but I wanted to evaluated because I am scared of psychiatrists since they gave me meds that made me want to kill myself in the past. I was actually getting physical pain as a result of my psychic pain. I also heard voices in my head due to medicine mismanagement, the voices told me to do things that gave me an adolescent diagnosis of OCD. It went away after I stopped taking the drugs.I hated psychiatry and was skeptical of ever going back, it was the distress caused by the symptoms that made me seek out help from a therapist and a pdoc. I still haven't agreed to any meds from the pdoc. But have been making huge progress in therapy.
I think the amount of people who have mental health problems is greatly under estimated, for example everybody in my life is crazy, out of all these crazy people only 1 of them besides me is actually talking to a MH professional. But he refuses to go to therapy, he just wants benzos to reduce his panic attacks and anxiety and could care less about permanently fixing his problems. My dad who is obviously OCD, also refuses to seek help, I can tell his OCD because I've been there before and overcame it so I understand the disorder pretty well. I think many people with severe mental health issues refuse help because they are men and feel like seeking treatment and asking for help is a weakness. They think they need to just "man up" and put up with all the self-abuse they subject themselves to.