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Originally Posted by Heather Unbalanced
Hi,
I LOVE your question.
I go to school for psychology. My last psych class was Abnormal Psych (all the disorders).
I have always been a self-diagnoser and one to diagnose others (tip: be careful who you diagnose...some people dont like it, haha.)
I diagnosed myself with panic disorder maybe half a year ago.
A few weeks ago, I diagnosed myself with bpd.
I own the DSM 5 and even w.o it, it is easy to find the dsm criterion for each disorder so one can see exactly what is needed to have a diagnosis.
The only problems with self diagnosing are 1: personal biases (people often see themselves differently than how others see them-to put it briefly) and 2: the person may not have an accurate understanding of the criterion needed for diagnosis.
If those two things are not an issue, there is no problem or necessary fallacy with self-diagnosis.
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Zobothehobo, Thanks for starting this thread-I just joined today and 'Self-Diagnosis' is what brought me to the group.
For over 30yrs I have found myself looking back at the way I handle situations and talked myself into seeking help, only to talk myself out of help. So this morning (before starting my day) I googled
self-diagnosis/bipolar. That was 10:00am this morning-and it's now almost 2:00. I haven't left the computer-or completed what I should have today.
My (adult) son -who was diagnosed as Bipolar (20yrs ago) lives in govt. housing,is on welfare, can't hold down a job or relationships and is just a mess. When he was a young adult I wondered if he really had a problem or if he just didn't want to grow up and work. All these years later I know he has a problem(condition), and after studying about it, I now believe I do too.
In my generation, as a young adult,wife, mom, business owner we "worked our problem out". Advice from our parents and culture. Now I know what a disservice I have done to my family by not reaching out sooner.
I haven't taken the time to read all the posts on this thread, yet look forward to learning from Ya'll,
My Other Self