Thanks for the post. In an ideal world I'd happily go along and get a referral to see a specialist. Unfortunately, that's not where we live.

In all honesty, I don't trust the diagnostic system. There's too much room for error and opinion. And like just about every other field, people enter the field for different reasons - not always reasons which make them good at the job of it. And finally, I wouldn't want any diagnosis on my 'record' - I've seen that go badly for someone I knew who went to court and had their medical record pulled up and... oops, looks like you have mental problems.

And I read the Jon Ronson book - The Psychopath Test - so I know that being a 'professional' in the field of psychiatric diagnostics is little more than being paid to run the kind of tests that appear on the website I visited today. I understand your point, but when the diagnosis depends on which professional you go to, you're really just getting an opinion.

So maybe I'm wasting my time thinking about this stuff if 'getting well' means seeing someone 'professional'.