DDNOS Simply confused about OSDD

[SophieBernstein]

I've been going through this for years where I spend months and months where everything becomes increasingly blurry, distant, and I feel like my head is in a fog, among other things. I also have many physical symptoms, daily memory loss, and I can hear voices in my head, especially from a girl, and sometimes, if she causes more trouble another one appear. The thing is, reading about it, I have almost all the symptoms of OSDD-1B, enough to justify the diagnosis, but not all the time; it happens for months, not the whole year. In other words, I can go on like this for six months, getting worse each time, and gradually, according to my psychologist, I integrate and don't have them so prominently, although they come back after a while. I know they've been there since at least age 15, but not all the time... What is this? Also, it's not something stable, so it's complicated for me to discuss it with psychiatrists because I feel like they'll think I'm lying. I already have several diagnoses, but none of them fully explain this

 

[Sideways]

Also, it's not something stable, so it's complicated for me to discuss it with psychiatrists because I feel like they'll think I'm lying.

It can be extremely hard to be vulnerable with strangers.

But, the only informed, educated, experienced and qualified opinion you can get on this? Is going to have to come from a professional.

Maybe it’s worth the risk? Even though you worry like they might think…, that doesn’t mean they will. It just means you’re worried about it. We can do some incredibly helpful things for our recovery even though we’re worried about doing them.

 

[SophieBernstein]

Maybe it’s worth the risk? Even though you worry like they might think…, that doesn’t mean they will. It just means you’re worried about it. We can do some incredibly helpful things for our recovery even though we’re worried about doing them.

I told my new psychiatrist about the memory loss, and a little about that girl. Not very much because I'm really scared of what I said before... and them he just saw some things that don't make sense on my medical reports (I have like 5, 6 or 7 diagnosis, I don't remember all of them but I think they misunderstood some of them because ptsd cause depresion and anxiety and there is no need to add them separately) and he thought I could have too ADHD so I'm now doing tests to see. Aparently, I have an attention deficit but the hiperactivity is not very clear.

The thing is that it doesn't explain it either!

 

[Sideways]

If it makes you feel any better? It took me years and years in pretty much full time treatment to get my diagnosis sorted out. Try and have some patience while they work through it - ADHD and OSDD are 2 very different diagnoses, with very different treatment approaches, so it’s worth getting it right.

 

[arfie]

I already have several diagnoses, but none of them fully explain this

psychology remains an infant science. many argue that it is too ethereal to be a science, at all. my first formal psychotherapy appointment was in 1972, approximately 20 years before ptsd theories hit the pro publications. the dx'es i have worn in those decades are mind-boggling in their creative diversity. one of my more effective therapists compared himself to a witch doctor who shakes books over heads until a likely-sounding dx falls out. his preferred focus was individual symptoms, tackled one at a time. this approach has worked well for me. call ^it^ whatever gets my life working in your head.

If it makes you feel any better? It took me years and years in pretty much full time treatment to get my diagnosis sorted out. Try and have some patience while they work through it - ADHD and OSDD are 2 very different diagnoses, with very different treatment approaches, so it’s worth getting it right.

i'll second this notion.

 

[SophieBernstein]

If it makes you feel any better? It took me years and years in pretty much full time treatment to get my diagnosis sorted out. Try and have some patience while they work through it - ADHD and OSDD are 2 very different diagnoses, with very different treatment approaches, so it’s worth getting it right.

I´m waiting but each time I go is really expensive. I would like to make it faster for save some money but i don´t want to go and say "Hey, I think I may have this" because he would surely think I´m lying

psychology remains an infant science. many argue that it is too ethereal to be a science, at all. my first formal psychotherapy appointment was in 1972, approximately 20 years before ptsd theories hit the pro publications. the dx'es i have worn in those decades are mind-boggling in their creative diversity. one of my more effective therapists compared himself to a witch doctor who shakes books over heads until a likely-sounding dx falls out. his preferred focus was individual symptoms, tackled one at a time. this approach has worked well for me. call ^it^ whatever gets my life working in your head.

If that works, I won't have any problems. However, some different disorders may look similar but have very different roots. For example, BPD and PTSD. If my psychiatrist thinks I have BPD, they might believe I feel empty and have abandonment issues, sometimes just putting me in a 'box' to justify it. This has already happened to me, and that's what concerns me because they might prescribe medications for things I don't actually have. I have to see how one psychiatrist told me I didn´t have empathy because of BPD, what?? I stuggle a lot with that because I hate when someone is suffering and I can´t do anything, I´m literally studying for this...

I don´t know, from my point of view the problem with diagnoses is that they just prejudge you according to your diagnosis.

 

[arfie]

I don´t know, from my point of view the problem with diagnoses is that they just prejudge you according to your diagnosis.

amen to this, sophie. in my head, the doc who felt like a witch doctor is chiming, "amen," in glorious harmony. worse than what the prejudgments of other people is how i, up close and personal, get muddled and confused trying to fit myself into said diagnoses(pl). in managing my own mental illness on a daily basis, the job feels far easier when i focus on the symptoms of the day without attempting to fit them into broader categories.

which acronym is responsible for this round of my inability to empathize? does it matter? ^it^ remains what ^it^ is, by whatever name. insert therapy tool here.

 

[SophieBernstein]

amen to this, sophie. in my head, the doc who felt like a witch doctor is chiming, "amen," in glorious harmony. worse than what the prejudgments of other people is how i, up close and personal, get muddled and confused trying to fit myself into said diagnoses(pl). in managing my own mental illness on a daily basis, the job feels far easier when i focus on the symptoms of the day without attempting to fit them into broader categories.

which acronym is responsible for this round of my inability to empathize? does it matter? ^it^ remains what ^it^ is, by whatever name. insert therapy tool here.

I wouldn´t matter if they didn´t put symtomps that I don´t have and them they try to medicate them. My T says I have to control my empathy because I have too much but a shrink sayd the opposte after just reading some diagnosis.