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Originally Posted by jimi...
I must say I'm plain curious to why someone would say they might be schizotypal. It is a a kind of strange diagnosis I don't know what to think of.
My official list:
Depression with anxiety (which actually is one thing, it's some new fancy Euro DX) (BP might still be on the table but I don't think so)
OCD
AS
ADD
Lupus/Sjogrens or maybe AI overlap syndrome
What I have and they know but don't diagnose separately:
Panic attacks
DSPS
SAD
What they don't know I have:
Gender dysphoria
Some type of mild dissociation (or whatever... I really don't know what to call it)
-those are things I will take to my grave, LOL
Still, for me it doesn't feel like a lot. My depression is treated and not nearly as bad as it was. The way I suffer from Asperger's and ADD is I have really sucky executive functioning skills. The other things are mainy a bonus.  OCD is cut in half with meds and doesn't bother me as bad as it did, it was vile for a bit, still hate it. Panic attacks are few and far between but it is what I hate the MOST. The SAD I can live with but I sort of live a half life, I just get by in winters. The DSPS I fight with daily and sometimes I get soooooo annoyed because it really, really affects me. MY AI makes me tired to the bone and more.
Still... alive and kicking! Now if they could finally make that drug for DSPS (since they cracked the code) and a GOOD med for lupus, nothing could hold me back I think.
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Hi Jimi...i diagnosed myself with schizotypal disorder for the reasons VH and Axiom stated above. Basically a label for my eccentricity. Thrown in with a baseline of paranoia. Schizoaffective PD might be better.