I'm un-diagnosed and proud...

I've never had anyone pick my brain and diagnose me.

I haven leanings toward depression, though.

 

I'm pretty sure I was diagnosed with depression when I was about 10. I don't think it was depression, my actions and thoughts that I remember really seem to fit under the label of obsessive-compulsive disorder. I'm pretty much okay now, just have a tendency to be super high-strung and obsessive over certain things still.

 

It's hard to diagnose a kid.

 

its hard to diagnose anyone... especially highly intelligent peoples.

 

I'm no expert by any means, but I do have a BA in psych. And I have an issue with labels and the DSM standard of diagnostics a LOT of the time. I really think psychology/psychiatry has become too convoluted and not accepting of natural life cycles.

Not to say there aren't people with issues, or legitimate disorders, but I also think any single person could have a slew of different labels thrown at them by different doctors and at different points in their life.

 

Thin line between bat shit crazy and talented

 

I have two yrs college for psych and couldn't take it anymore because I'm not all about label someone, give em meds, label, meds... bleh. Yea, ppl have mental illnesses but ppl experience LIFE too and much of it is just that.. life. Deal w it.

 

And a weaving line at that....

 

I'm definitely diagnosed for chronic depression with episodes of major depression. It is legitimate in my family. My grandmother had major (bed ridden) depression and my mom and aunt both have it too.

It sucks.

 

My entire family is bipolar. When I don't smoke pot for a while I feel like I am too. But as long as I smoke (at minimum) about once a month I'm ok.

 

Un-diagnosed or misdiagnosed? That's the question...

 

Allow me the pleasure of deflowering you and being your first!

I diagnose you with Borderline Multiple Personality Disorder. That is all.

Thank you. That's 5 cents in the jar please.

 

Don't worry, anybody can read the mental health sections of Wikipedia and find at least ten conditions that they have.
:dizzy2: :bomb:

 

I don't really buy into most mental disorders to the extent that they're diagnosed today, and I generally think a lot of things can be overcome with the right diet, exercise, and mindset. Milder forms of depression, anxiety, etc..ADHD especially. I hate how common ADHD diagnoses are with children today. Children today also don't exercise as much or eat as healthy as previous generations.

I'm pretty sure I'm slightly OCD. Post partum ocd occurs sometimes just like post partum depression and it definitely got really bad after I had a baby. I was in a fog for a few months. I would just sit and rake my eyes over every square inch of my living room, piece by piece, and find any sign of uncleanliness or disorder. there were other things too, just weird obsessive thoughts and I never slept because I had to make sure my baby was breathing every 5 minutes. I've been coming out of that for the last couple of months and now I'm just back to being normal, but I'm still slightly ocd. I have to line things up every night and put things in perfect order or I don't feel right.

 

I've had issues with anxiety in the past, which I was able to overcome (mostly) with a bit of therapy and basically just wanting to bad enough.

I have a nervous habit of playing with my hair when I do feel anxious. I'm also a bit of a hypochondriac, which probably has some to do with anxiety.

I need to be occupying my mind with something. Another reason why I probably play with my hair so much. While talking to a person I am almost always gesturing my hands or pushing the cuticles around my fingernails around.

My mind is almost always scattered. Someone can be talking to me and I'll be thinking of something entirely different. I'm easily amused though. Less than 20 minutes ago I was blowing bubbles outside for about an hour, just chilling out in the sun.

 

I dislike labels when it comes to so-called mental illness and psychiatric disorders. Often what is deemed a disorder is simply a character trait that prevents somebody from getting by in an unnatural world, where people are whittled down to mere producers/consumers, and a person's worth is valued by the material things they possess. To me, it seems that the people who have the hardest time functioning in society are also the most interesting and intelligent. I really wonder if they are the ones who are mentally ill, or it's the world that is collectively sick, and those given a diagnosis for something that may not even exist are simply seeing things for what they are while unable to make sense of it. What sane person would?

The problem with labels and diagnoses, especially with regard to mental health, is that they diminish people, and they diminish a person's individuality. Everyone is unique, and when people are marginalized with a diagnosis it almost seems to become them. Or they become what they are diagnosed with, and they allow that to define who they are. I don't like that.

 

^ that is why I like the first quote in T Woods sig

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a sick society."

 

Dammit, I was gonna say that, too.

 

Without a doubt! Most of it is called being human and having some human quirkiness.

 

I'm livin the good life