Doctor Appointment

So I recently went to see my psychiatrist and I asked him how I would go about getting tested for a dissociative disorder. He then proceeded to tell me that when I was getting neuropsych testing they should of tested for that, which confused me. Is that true? I'm not sure.

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yes here in america a neuropsych test includes testing for dissociative disorders.

neuropsych stands for Neurological psychological assessment. it tests for all medical problems\diseases, all mental disorders, cognitive\behavioral functions (how a person thinks, reacts to triggers and problems, how a person behaves...) it is a very thorough testing process that can quickly diagnose things like whether a person has any dissociative disorders (or any other mental disorders)

Not entirely certain, yet, I'm under the impression that it's probable. While evaluating for biological influence on behavior, certainly seems the test is part of differential diagnosis. For instance, come to discover that a diagnosis for schizophrenia symptoms involves a six month plus pattern.

Do you have access to your chart? Are there any diagnostic memos on your summary report?

I have no idea - both posts are in Greek to me. Never heard of those tests. good luck!

I'll ask my mom to show me the summary report. The main reason I went for neuropsych testing was to see if I have high functioning autism. Since my psychiatrist thought I might have that.

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So according to the paper this is what it says.

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I need one of those to prove that I'm not cray cray. How do you get one?

So it looks like they've identified learning disorders and anxiety. that 3rd statement is interesting... "partial remission". Sometimes people with DD/DID get wrong diagnoses as schizophrenic and so forth... "hearing voices" "hallucinations". sometimes it can be DDNOS or DID and not really what they think, but if they don't believe in DD or think it is "terribly rare", they could exclude it. Time and monitoring your own experience, I suppose, will give you answers.

I receive a summary sheet after every appointment, myself . I think it started a couple of years ago. The codes are billing codes.

Just reading a bit about differences of schizoaffective and DID, they do present differently, yet it's understandable the confusion. I didn't see if PC had archive articles.
To diagnose DID, there's looking at trauma as causation. Schizoaffective would have neurobiological (genetic) component and is considered a development delay. (Note, the learning disability on your sheet). Also read that there could be a reaction to bullying or trauma that could bring about the hallucinations.

I never said about any truama,except with about the one with my older sis. Didn't feel comfortable since they were all men. I have a general mistrust of all men, for some reason.

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That's probably why you aren't receiving a DID diagnosis

diagnoses are so difficult. i had a bunch of testing done years ago as a child, teen, and adult, and i think it really just depends on how the results are interpreted by who is reading them.

i started out as a teen just having dysthymia, social anxiety, panic attacks with and without agoraphobia (alternating episodes), and at one point substance abuse (weed) in remission as diagnoses. then it was just borderline personality disorder since it was a catch-all for all my symptoms. it was left at that one diagnosis until i saw another psychiatrist for a second (more like third or fourth actually) opinion (after still carrying the borderline diagnosis but with probable DID). the other psychiatrist basically said i met criteria for borderline, schizoaffective disorder (i have heard and seen things externally), dissociative disorders (derealization/depersonalization and DDNOS-feeling other parts, hearing voices internally, feeling shifts of the parts, etc.), and random others things but did not 100% fit ANY of the criteria...so it led me to believe it's all in what they interpret your symptoms/results as since there can be so many overlapping things, and symptoms (for me anyway) can come and go depending on the day, life events, and other things...so i might meet criteria for one thing at one point then not at another point (although i think they go by what you experience in a six-month time frame maybe).

now, i am apparently moving out of the borderline diagnosis and more just dissociative of some type with anxiety and OCD (except that has ALL existed my entire life so am not sure why now it's becoming noticed).

diagnoses can be helpful, but also just plain confusing.

as a side note, i also have dyscalculia...i cannot understand math (even basic stuff) for the life of me. although, i am good at spelling, reading, writing, etc. oddly, i was never diagnosed with it in high school when tested for a learning disability...but they did figure out my short term memory sucks, so that was why it took/takes me a little longer at times to understand the concept of some things. they just didn't diagnose me with an actual learning disability since it didn't fit into whatever box they had of diagnoses...