@eskielover - I'm glad you found recovery. Sometimes the right support comes along when its needed. I think there is great variation especially in the level of competence among psychologists and other providers. I saw a psychologist at one community clinic. He told me he was opposed to the "medicalization of problems of living." That resonated with me. Then he asked me if I had considered that I might have Asperger's. I thought that was barking up a wrong tree. Around that same time one psychiatrist told me he had suddenly decided I was bipolar. A few years later, another pdoc at a program I was in said she suspected I was an alcoholic in denial. My peers in that day program told me they believed me that I wasn't. They said that doctor seemed to have gotten annoyed with me. What diagnosis you get can depend upon how a professional reacts to you emotionally. For me to get such different diagnoses convinced me that professionals in mental health really are not all that scientific. The pdoc who thought I was alcoholic, which I wasn't, later decided I had Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Peers told me I came across as opinionated, which they said was rubbing this doctor the wrong way. I later attended a support group moderated by a therapist who said that, if a provider judges a client to have a personality disorder, it just means that provider dislikes the client. The lack of consistency makes me think it's a big old guessing game. Sometimes, I'ld go further and say a lot of what goes on in the psych world is a farce.