[birdcrazy]

Ugh...

I hate what they are dxing me with. Now I believe the bipolar and I've gotten so much better on bipolar meds. But... Schizoaffective dx without having a period of psychosis outside a mood episode really ticks me off.

My therapist thinks I have ADHD and Avoidant, I might have the ADHD, but pdoc refused to test for it earlier. And Avoidant... ehh, I can see why he thinks that, but I don't think it's right, I'm not that extreme.

I really want to be tested for ADHD and Asperger's, but they won't...

They say to trust their diagnosis... but I can't accept that...

What should I do?

[kikki27]

Originally Posted by birdcrazy

Ugh...

I hate what they are dxing me with. Now I believe the bipolar and I've gotten so much better on bipolar meds. But... Schizoaffective dx without having a period of psychosis outside a mood episode really ticks me off.

My therapist thinks I have ADHD and Avoidant, I might have the ADHD, but pdoc refused to test for it earlier. And Avoidant... ehh, I can see why he thinks that, but I don't think it's right, I'm not that extreme.

I really want to be tested for ADHD and Asperger's, but they won't...

They say to trust their diagnosis... but I can't accept that...

What should I do?

If I was you I would demand to get tested so you know if you have adhd and asperger .Or find a doctor that will test you cause thats your health and we have to care about our health some doctors just dont care all they want is the money and thats not fair to us.Right now Iam having the same issues like cause they think I have adhd and sometimes I dont think so I think I have more of ocd than adhd cause Iam not highper just when Iam happy .But hope you do get better cause I know it can be stressful.And my doctor make me sick he want change the zoloft cause it dont work it make me more anxious and panic .

[elliemay]

I guess the questions for me and my psychiatrist would be:

"Am I getting better given the treatment of the current diagnosis?"

"How would my life be better if I got a different diagnosis?"

"Would by course of my treatment be different with a different diagnosis?"

I don't know if I would blindly trust my psychiatrist, especially if I thought I could be better than I am now, but if little would change, I would think my diagnosis as just words on a page.

[Perna]

It sounds like a lot of different dx's going around/changing and different people who haven't talked to one another, etc. I think I would have my therapist and pdoc conference together and hash out what they are thinking and get a priority list going; not good if one person is treating you for X and another, for Y unless there's some rhyme to the reason. I don't know that I'd get into it at the moment, myself, I'd wait until the dust settled and they explained what/why/how they're working and then I'd look at what they'd come up with and see how I "liked" it, if I agreed with their thinking/priorities, etc.

You may have three or four different, even contradictory-seeming dx's but there's generally a hierarchy and method of which to treat first, etc. Can't do them all at once, that would be chaos like it sounds like you are experiencing/believing you see. I don't know if your team is not listening or if they just don't understand how confused you are over what is going on. Make sure they are working together and that they explain their thinking to you so you understand too.