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Nike007 · Nov 17, 2015, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by lavendersage

You have Value Village? Great! That's actually where he got it but I said "Goodwill" because it's a more broadly recognized thrift store name.

If you haven't, get your Vitamin D level checked. A lot of people are seriously deficient. I was last winter. I mean, I barely registered a level it was so low! I was put on a mega-dose that boosted it up to a "normal" level. Now I just take a maintenance dosage.

It bugs the crep out of me that you have to be so cautious revealing things to your parents and your pdoc. Ah the powerlessness of being a teenager! No. Thank. You. So glad that part is DONE in my life.

Nonetheless, it's obvious from your posts across the board that you are extremely intelligent and able to advocate as best as you can for yourself.

Yep. I don't know where you live, but they have it here in Canada at least.

I might. You see, I just got a bunch, like 7-8 vials of blood taken from me in the past 5 days or so to do a crap load of test. I don't really understand the medical forms, but I know one is to make sure I don't have diabetes, along with checking my cortisol levels, my free T3 and T4 levels, and I had to do the lipid test to check cholesterol levels. Sigh.

That sucks. I will think about getting it checked. My mom would be like "why do you need your vitamins checked" and such.

Ya. Parents and pdoc. I am not sure what and what not to say. I am trying to think if I should tell my pdoc about SAD. I am going to get a full screening, mainly for ADHD, ASD, and LDs, but they do check for psychiatric things too. I know that they don't want to "overdiagnose" someone so they may claim a person doesn't have X condition because it is explainable by Y condition. If I get diagnosed with SAD, they may say I don't have ADHD as an example because this inattentive part has mainly shown this winter, and a part of depression causes lack of concentration and an inability to do things; motivation levels are low. I mean, I lack motivation and concentration levels all the time, just they might use that as an "excuse" for my inattentive things.

And thank you

. I feel like I could do better in a lot of things if I didn't have major anxiety issues. It really sucks. My anxiety mainly affects my music course, because all it is on is performance things and I have moderate social anxiety so no thank you.

Also, yes, you need a doctor's note to get blood work for vitamin screenings. They need the special sheet or whatever. Anyways, thanks for the response [emoji3].

Social anxiety disorder, GAD, OCD, and panic attacks

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