Thanks for reading that huge wall of text and responding so quickly.
I understand that professionals would be hesitant to diagnose an adult and I honestly don't know for sure if there would be any true advantages to a diagnosis. Maybe to explain my eccentric behavior or possibly even offensive behavior. Who knows how much I'm done or said that offended someone that I'm not aware of?
As far as treatment goes, I have a groups of very understanding friends that let me know when I'm doing a good job with socializing, don't make fun of me for not knowing how to do something, explain things that I don't understand, and basically understand that I'm different and if I do something weird or awkward, we just laugh it off etc. I don't know if that's as good as a professional therapy, but it is free.
I only have a psychiatrist at the moment, but I'm not super comfortable with her because she's still relatively new. I'm not sure I have a better choice at the moment. I just wish I had a more specific diagnosis rather than just "anxiety" and "depression". They must be stemming from something else.
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