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I've been labelled a lot of different things in my late teens from adjustment disorder, BPD, psychotic disorder NOS, to bipolar disorder. A few others I have seen in my records were PTSD (not sure how I got that one), anxiety and MDD. After I developed psychosis at 25 it all changed. Sometimes I wonder if the prodrome started at age 18, when I began to experience mild psychotic symptoms.
Medication can cause psychiatric symptoms. A few SSRI's I took made me manic, even though I don't have bipolar disorder. Zoloft and Paxil made me suicidal throughout the entire treatment, which is how I got the BPD diagnosis.
In my early 30s I figured it all out after extensive research. I needed to figure out why I felt different, so I could recover from psychiatry. I discovered autism spectrum disorder and discussed it with my mother. She was surprised that I looked into it, because she really wanted to discuss it with me. After that I got assessed and was diagnosed with it. My life changed after that.
The diagnoses that I acknowledge are:
GAD, ASD, MDD with psychotic features or DDX First Episode Psychosis and adjustment disorder.
A diagnosis can definitely change over time. Sometimes it can take years to figure out what is going on.
Interesting fact about my psychiatrist: She bills OHIP using the DSM code 390 (adjustment disorder) for all her clients regardless of their actual diagnosis.
OHIP records these codes and releases them to researchers.
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Dx: Didgee Disorder
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