[Rainbow_fishB]

I hate it that no-one knows whats wrong with me. I have a team of six people trying to figure out what is going on in my head, and they find me so interesting, i'm more of a project or experiment than a someone they want to help. Is it psychosis, bipolar, OCD, anxiety, autism, depression, schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, borderline personality disorder......? they dont have a clue, but they wont actually say that. They wont make a diagnosis in case they're wrong, but they wont say that they cant help me. I'm just drifting along, getting worse, going crazy in the arms of their theoretical support. I just want to know whats wrong with me, is this normal?

[amandalouise]

Originally Posted by Rainbow_fishB

I hate it that no-one knows whats wrong with me. I have a team of six people trying to figure out what is going on in my head, and they find me so interesting, i'm more of a project or experiment than a someone they want to help. Is it psychosis, bipolar, OCD, anxiety, autism, depression, schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, borderline personality disorder......? they dont have a clue, but they wont actually say that. They wont make a diagnosis in case they're wrong, but they wont say that they cant help me. I'm just drifting along, getting worse, going crazy in the arms of their theoretical support. I just want to know whats wrong with me, is this normal?

is it normal to want to know whats wrong...sure is.
is it normal for treatment providers to not be sure of what a persons diagnosis is...sure it is. for some people it takes as many as 20 or 30 yrs to get the right diagnosis because many mental and physical health problems share the same symptoms and responds different ways to treatment options.. as each mental or physical health issue gets ruled in or out it brings the treatment providers closer to what the true diagnosis is.
is it normal for treatment providers to not say which mental disorder a person has or that they are not sure...sure it is.. most treatment providers dont want to lock a person in to a diagnosis if they are not sure and they know that with some people it does more harm then good to say well we dont know what to tell you.. because some people may see that as saying we dont believe you have this problem or that one. they would rather err on the side of caution and continue working to figure out what the person has even if it takes years to unravel all the symptoms problems and rule out hundreds of possibilities and eventually arrive at the correct diagnosis.

my suggestion continue working with your treatment providers. and some day you will have the diagnosis of what is going on inside you.

[RoseStockwell1991]

Hun i am in the same boat about my biploar. Half the doctors think its biploar then its bpd. SO you ever want ot talk you can pm me

[Piraeus]

Hello Rainbow_fishB, I'm sorry you are going through this with your doctors. You deserve better. Can you see a different doctor? Maybe another doc will give you a diagnosis. It is normal to want to know what is wrong. Keep on diggin. you will get some answers soon.Good luck

[Sistah]

Originally Posted by Rainbow_fishB

I hate it that no-one knows whats wrong with me. I have a team of six people trying to figure out what is going on in my head, and they find me so interesting, i'm more of a project or experiment than a someone they want to help. Is it psychosis, bipolar, OCD, anxiety, autism, depression, schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder, borderline personality disorder......? they dont have a clue, but they wont actually say that. They wont make a diagnosis in case they're wrong, but they wont say that they cant help me. I'm just drifting along, getting worse, going crazy in the arms of their theoretical support. I just want to know whats wrong with me, is this normal?

Yes it is normal in my personal opinion. I can remember saying the same thing for about 5 months. I just couldn't understand why no one would tell me what my problem was. Once they did I said they were wrong. I wanted more proof/evidence. If you have seriously given the "team" plenty of time to do what they are trained to do (diagnose), then I would move on and go some where else. Maybe you're dealing with interns or other clinicians in training. Good luck, God bless and keep the faith. Peace

[Atypical_Disaster]

I think it's normal to be fed up with all of this, diagnosing mental illness correctly is a challenge & it takes time. That doesn't make it very easy on the patients they're trying to help though. I'm sorry you're going through this.

Have you done the professional psychological testing? I know that helped my treatment team a lot. It took me nearly 5 years to get the right diagnosis. It's frustrating. Until then, focus on treating symptoms rather than a disorder.

[-jimi-]

If they are seriously choosing between all the labels you mentioned, no it is not normal. Sometimes docs make mistakes, but most of the time they have some kind of idea what type of disorder it is even if they cannot pinpoint it. Some of them can be hard to distinguish between, like avpd can be misdiagnosed as social anxiety, DID can be misdiagnosed psychosis and bipolar can be misdiagnosed BPD. But I haven't heard of anyone who could have most any label. There are usually some core traits. Some people however, have issues that are a bit spread out so they need more than one diagnosis to describe, I'm such a person.

Sometimes they diagnose quickly and other times theyre scared to. They diagnosed me as bipolar straight away but then sometimes with bipolar comes psychosis and ocd, and plenty of other things, so maybe he is seeing elements of various conditions and isnt sure which is the strongest and therefore which is the main one you actually have and therefore what meds you should be on (if any)