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Originally Posted by CopperStar
I have no idea, your guess is as good as mine. I feel like there is never enough time even in a first 1 hour session with a pdoc to give them a comprehensive picture, so I feel like often a pdoc's guess is going to be even weaker than my own haha.
Before I became homeless last year, I was living with roommates, subletting a room in this house one of the roommates owned. I became absolutely terrified of them and convinced that they wanted to harm me in some way. My hygiene went completely downhill, my rented room was a massive disaster area, I had a breakdown at work and threw something at my supervisor, developed strong spiritual delusions that made me want to run away and be homeless, I eventually 'escaped' the house by locking the bedroom door and falling out of the window, but not before smashing my laptop so they couldn't use it to try to find me. I don't remember being depressed or manic through any of that.
But there's never enough time to go over such things with pdocs, I guess. There are too many stories, too many examples, and they're really mostly focused on the here/now, anyway.
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Hmm would it help if you gave them a write up that they can just skim quickly? Faster than you retelling the stories over the whole session(s).
Anyway I want to fix something in my previous post, the thing that sounds a bit like atypical depression, maybe it's more like schizoid pd actually. That category seems to work better because as I said, I was never depressed and unmotivated, only unmotivated socially. And the low-ish mood I mention isn't depressive either, it's just low in terms of feeling nothing
Though not full-on schizoid pd, was full-on version only for about half a year.
So now my question is, do you go from schizoid issues to schizoaffective disorder or to bipolar with mild schizophrenic features O_o