Poll How Many Diagnoses Of Mental Illness Do You Have?

[Lolo]

1. Borderline personality disorder 2. Major depression. 3. Anxiety disorder. 4. PTSD I'm not sure if insomnia and an emotional handicap count.

 

[BlackbirdSinging]

I've been diagnosed with PTSD and many of my traumas were complex. I've also been diagnosed with MDD or Major Depressive Disorder GAD or Generalized Anxiety Disorder a borderline eating disorder and one of my trauma therapists said something about BDD or Body Dysmorphic Disorder. I also have a history of cutting.

 

[Nope]

Let me count the ones that I know and then the ones that I suspect here, then I'll work out what's right...

Big suspect at the moment is not a mental illness, it's a developmental disorder, Aspergers. I score probable to yeah you pretty much are on the diagnostic university tests you get online and everybody around me is expecting it will be that or something else on the spectrum (though I doubt I have HFA and I'm not sure how PDD-NOS works).

A co morbid issue which could be occurring with the possible AS is obsessive compulsions, maybe the full disorder, though I doubt that. Others could be alexithymia and misophonia, though they're neuro too and the latter could be down to "normal" sound sensitivity and the inability to control anger when I've been worn down.

Another suspect is Seasonal Affective Disorder. I think folk closure to the poles than the equator don't realise how prevalent it is. Even just here in Scotland (yup, personal detail) it actually takes its toll on more people than you'd think. In an ideal world we'd all have the full-blown SAD lights which can be as big as a drawer. Unfortunately, capitalism. You can buy special light bulbs but they hurt my head.

Pretty sure that's it for the maybes, except some FLEAS (leftover shadows of traits) from my unrepentant Borderline Personality Disorder 'mother' who kicked off the C-PTSD in the first place. What great gifts!


So, do phobias count as one or more? I've got one complex and at least two 'simple' ones: thanatophobia (please let's not get into this one), agoraphobia, and mottephobia, though I'm beginning to get over the last.

Had a small bout of dermatilliomania recently which left the heel of my foot... not looking pretty.

I've been briefly diagnosed with severe generalised anxiety disorder but I've personally been wondering if panic disorder might explain issues in a more understandable way in light of what diagnosis may be coming. Panic disorder is the one you can have panic attacks "just because", isn't it?

PMDD is not a mental illness but it seriously affects the moods of the women who suffer from it and can leave some, like me, with sometimes only one week out of a whole month where they don't feel the hormonal grunge and... insanity. One GP suggested it was endometriosis which can cause your mood to go bonkers too, but she wasn't willing to send me for a laprascopy. So we have to mess around with hormone treatments until we get it right.

I was originally signed onto disability with simply depression and anxiety. Of course, the anxiety has evolved but the depression is probably still down as clinical/unipolar. One time a random psych mentioned "mood disorder" and my ex-friend with cyclomania was certain I had it too but the mood is probably actually caused by the C-PTSD and probable AS.

And so we come to the C-PTSD, I think. It was on a letter to the Department of Work and Pensions in order to get them to leave me alone. Since a psychologist can't diagnose she either lied or discussed it with my psychiatrist. Either way, it's on a legal document and it explains a lot, esp. why I thought I might be BPD because C-PTSD can act in similar fashions. I was quite shocked when I saw it. It was such an "adult" diagnosis. That was a couple years ago.


As for flinging in the physical for the heck of it, getting tablets for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, have Overactive Bladder caused by my own stress after lots of UTIs (gave up on trying to get it fixed because reasons), and I'm near-sighted with astigmatism. Also prone to headaches, reactions to sensory stimuli, meltdowns, and shutdowns.


So one the books, so to speak: C-PTSD, severe GAD, clinical depression, agoraphobia, and PMDD*.

*Any woman with severe PMS, times it by about ten. Any woman who barely notices their period... Allow yourself to be locked in a room full of crying babies with oven mits tapped to your hands and Eminem blasting from speakers and oh guess what, they gave you PCP too. Men... Do the same. Then you'll know. So I think that's allowed up there.

Yay! Five! I get to be screwy! Oh and I had a couple week long manic psychotic break induced by drugs during which I worked out the meaning of existence.

I also like to talk if you hadn't notice.

P.S. Hello to my dissociating, depersonalising, and detaching friends. Also those who can't remember a darn thing about their childhood.

 

[rightkindofme]

PTSD, GAD, Depression, PMDD (which isn't psychological, exactly, but close enough). The rest is physical.

 

[ground crew]

cptsd, mdd and dngla (did not get laid again, similar to pms but can be anytime, or for the last decade. It's a guy thing....)

 

[joeylittle]

dngla (did not get laid again, similar to pms but can be anytime, or for the last decade. It's a guy thing....)

:roflmao:
(not just a guy thing :p)

 

[joeylittle]

MDD, PTSD, and GAD - but that last one is only for insurance purposes; my psychiatrist is smart.

I think a little knowledge is sometimes a dangerous thing, when it comes to knowing these labels and racking up diagnoses. Since everything overlaps, you really have to always re-evaluate for what the overarching theme is that emerges from all the symptoms.

Like, I pick my skin. I pick at it til it bleeds. I don't have dermatilomania. I have a bad habit - but it's what would be considered sub-clinical, and not even a symptom on its own. I also have engaged in self-harm. On a scale of 0-pathological, I'd say I'm a 3 or a 4. A few really big flare-ups, but not the kind of ongoing compulsion that goes with that symptom set. It actually makes sense to me to consider my skin-picking as an offshoot of the self-harming behavior - but at best, it contributes to my main diagnoses, it's not a separate issue.

There's a line between 'I feel anxious' and 'I have anxiety'. But when you go to a psychiatrist, your leading symptom is anxiety, you don't disclose too much about yourself, you'll walk out of there with Generalized Anxiety Disorder on a piece of paper. When you get diagnosed with PTSD a year later, you look back and talk to your current psych about whether the anxiety is actually co-morbid to the PTSD, or stand alone in it's own strength and symptom set.

Dunno - I don't mean to be coming off as high-horse about this, and I think it's probably the way it reads. My only point is that there is a difference between symptoms and disorders - and PTSD cuts across so many of them that it often becomes the single explanation, or one of two primary diagnoses. I think understanding them that way really helps a person focus their treatment plan...at least, it definitely does for me.

 

[intheprocess]

PTSD
clinical depression
Anorexia
GERD

 

[Changing4Best]

I'm PTSD and Bi-Polar. Originally the bipolar was thought to be only general depressive disorder, but then I had a super manic while talking to my therapist and Bipolar is not what I take the majority of my meds for, as well as one for anxiety, which is PTSD caused, I think.

 

[Truthful_Whispers]

I am officially diagnosed PTSD & Bipolar II. With sub-illnesses such as social anxiety, avoidance, seasonal affective disorder, chronic depression, etc.

 

[MrsBeasley86]

PTSD
GAD
Panic disorder
Dissociative disorder

And when my anxiety is bad, I have depression.

 

[Kailani]

only PTSD now; bipolar recently dropped, MPD dropped and OCD without compulsive dropped