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Old Feb 15, 2016, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by TryingToMoveForward View Post
I was diagnosed by doing a psychological evaluation by a psychologist. Though it was my old therapist who diagnosed with me ADD once I had the suspicion it was there, I asked her to assess me. In the past I was diagnosed as having GAD and Major Depression. But since I was hypomanic, the counselor at the time didn't notice I was in a hypomanic stage. And she admitted she had difficulty discerning if people were bipolar or not. The first time I saw a psychiatrist, he said I was biopolar. I come home and a counselor said I was schizoaffective. Five years later I had an evaluation done and the psychologist found Bipolar Disorder Type II, BPD, and PTSD. So I was never actually schizoaffective.

Currently, I go by the results of the psychological eval.

The psychologist also did a neurological functioning evaluation and diagnosed me as globally mildly cognitively impaired. That's another condition.

I'm being assessed for epilepsy...or a brain tumor....some kind of neurological disorder because of seizure-like symptoms.

So I figure one of these has to explain all these problems and ADD really fits the bill upon further research.
OK thank you so much, I've always been curious. I don't think I have had an evaluation like that. I was originally diagnosed with MDD from my GPS but then it turned out to be bipolar after some hospitalizations. I never questioned it once I figured out what it was. But I see traits of other disorders in there, but who knows..