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Old Nov 11, 2020, 12:55 PM
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How do you suggest to a supposed expert that you think your dx is incorrect or incomplete? Or is it better just to bring up symptoms and hope they can piece together if that’s normal for your current dx or not?

At this point I’m just rambling it its kinda relevant but after this point nothing is important.
My T brought it up last year that I might (probably?) have ADHD, and a few friends and family members think I have it too. If I have it, I obviously want to be treated because its making life hard, but I’m afraid that pnurse will just chalk it up to cognitive symptoms of schizoaffective (my only current official dx) and say I have to live with it. The diagnosis process is a little weird here too. Instead of talking to a professional and over time they dx you when they’re certain, you have an hour long appointment with someone specialized in diagnosis and then they assign you a therapist/psych/case manager/functional support/ etc. I dont even know if the pnurse I have can make changes to that diagnosis without consulting the dx specialist, and during my intake evaluation they pretty much said “we see in your history schizophrenia and bipolar so schizoaffective it is” (though that was just their doctors before I quit treatment for a year, IP docs have dxd me with other stuff depending on what I was presenting at the time).

Like at an IOP I went to as a teen they said diagnosis wasn’t important, but I feel it is because what if its wrong and I’m getting the wrong or inadequate treatment? My mom keeps saying there’s something they’re missing. It’s kinda fishy that they say I have a mood disorder but Ive tried every mood stabilizer out there and none of them did **** and some of them made me much much worse. I’m also sober for the first time in years and I dont know how to say “this diagnosis might be inaccurate because I lied and have been in active addiction for like 6 years now and lied about the severity” like I know how to word it but its like talking about your sex life with grandma, something you just cant get out of your mouth 75% of the time.
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