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personal things i dont really mind sharing and thoughts about the subject here
i've been diagnosed with ptsd, depression, psychosis, asperger's, anorexia and anxiety over the years by CAMHS, but i believe that two of these were probably falsely diagnosed and one is a 80/20.
with psychosis, i heard voices and hallucinated every night, i was incedibly paranoid and i had weird bits of amnesia, but in the end i pulled through it. the thing is, i did tell my psychiatrist that i only hallucinated and heard voices when i was very tired, but i don't think they listened to me. (pretty sure it's normal when you're tired your brain plays tricks on you) i also probably forgot things because i was very stressed at the time and i had a lot on my mind, i found myself not really listening to much around me. so i probably didn't have psychosis.
with anorexia, my councillor told me that he thought i had it because i was so sad i didn't want to eat, so he told CAMHS and they helped me with it. i lost a bit of weight back then and now that i'm the ideal weight i'd still rather be thinner. but i was incredibly self aware of my bad habit and i still ate enough, i told them this but they just ignored me and continued to make sure i ate a lot, treating me like i did very extreme things to get rid of my weight. i think i had a problem but i don't think it was bad enough to be treated as anorexia.
i'm 80/20 about asperger's. i've felt different all of my life and it explains a lot of my behaviours, i used to have a lot of imaginary friends i could actually see (which apparently is common with children who have asperger's). i also displayed quirky but also aloof behaviour and had a weird eating habit when i was younger. i'm also a little antisocial.
a part of me says that i may not have it at all. the spectrum is broad, there are lots and lots of symptoms for it, and every person on the autistic spectrum is different, some have these symptoms and some don't, i'm very able to socialise and act like a normal girl, so i just don't know what to think.
you don't have to share anything here about whatever you've been through to make a point, i'm just curious if you think that psychiatrists overdiagnose people.
i've been diagnosed with ptsd, depression, psychosis, asperger's, anorexia and anxiety over the years by CAMHS, but i believe that two of these were probably falsely diagnosed and one is a 80/20.
with psychosis, i heard voices and hallucinated every night, i was incedibly paranoid and i had weird bits of amnesia, but in the end i pulled through it. the thing is, i did tell my psychiatrist that i only hallucinated and heard voices when i was very tired, but i don't think they listened to me. (pretty sure it's normal when you're tired your brain plays tricks on you) i also probably forgot things because i was very stressed at the time and i had a lot on my mind, i found myself not really listening to much around me. so i probably didn't have psychosis.
with anorexia, my councillor told me that he thought i had it because i was so sad i didn't want to eat, so he told CAMHS and they helped me with it. i lost a bit of weight back then and now that i'm the ideal weight i'd still rather be thinner. but i was incredibly self aware of my bad habit and i still ate enough, i told them this but they just ignored me and continued to make sure i ate a lot, treating me like i did very extreme things to get rid of my weight. i think i had a problem but i don't think it was bad enough to be treated as anorexia.
i'm 80/20 about asperger's. i've felt different all of my life and it explains a lot of my behaviours, i used to have a lot of imaginary friends i could actually see (which apparently is common with children who have asperger's). i also displayed quirky but also aloof behaviour and had a weird eating habit when i was younger. i'm also a little antisocial.
a part of me says that i may not have it at all. the spectrum is broad, there are lots and lots of symptoms for it, and every person on the autistic spectrum is different, some have these symptoms and some don't, i'm very able to socialise and act like a normal girl, so i just don't know what to think.
you don't have to share anything here about whatever you've been through to make a point, i'm just curious if you think that psychiatrists overdiagnose people.
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