Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Schizophrenia

ChemicallyImbalanced:

How do you diagnose yourself? Do you just...say you have it?

Pretty much, I suppose.
Haven't you seen people do it?
:shifty
I have.

dark.:

ChemicallyImbalanced:

How do you diagnose yourself? Do you just...say you have it?

Pretty much, I suppose.
Haven't you seen people do it?
:shifty
I have.

I've seen people do it I just never really clicked that they were diagnosing themselves. :XD

ChemicallyImbalanced:

I've seen people do it I just never really clicked that they were diagnosing themselves. :XD

:shifty
I suspect people of all kinds of bad things.
And I've read my mom's medical books on mental health and mental health care. Well at least some of them.
Not saying that I'm actually right. Maybe they're not.
O_O

I was actually read this book the other day,
and it said that 1 in every 4 people will experience depression in their life time.

I can say that in my family 3/4 people are depressed.
At the start of the year, it was 4.

And with the self diagnosing thing.
How can you be sure that you're totally correct?
Do you just go to a doctor and tell them what you think you are?

Thank you for andwering my question. :cute:
:arms:

Veela_Hugz:

I was actually read this book the other day,
and it said that 1 in every 4 people will experience depression in their life time.

I can say that in my family 3/4 people are depressed.
At the start of the year, it was 4.

And with the self diagnosing thing.
How can you be sure that you're totally correct?
Do you just go to a doctor and tell them what you think you are?

If you self diagnose, you look at the symptoms you have and you come to the conclusion of diagnosing yourself with a disorder. You can't be sure you are totally correct, and most don't go to a doctor. That's why it's self diagnosing.
I'm pretty sure that's how it works. :shifty
A doctor won't prescribe you meds or anything if you just walk in and say you have the illness.

Veela_Hugz:

I was actually read this book the other day,
and it said that 1 in every 4 people will experience depression in their life time.

Same amount of teenagers have STDs. Random numbers?

ChemicallyImbalanced:

A doctor won't prescribe you meds or anything if you just walk in and say you have the illness.

That's screaming "Substance abuse!".

Fehlen.:

ChemicallyImbalanced:

A doctor won't prescribe you meds or anything if you just walk in and say you have the illness.

That's screaming "Substance abuse!".

:shifty
I'm rather sure the doctor will just ask in a calm voice ''and why do you believe that?'' after you tell him and maybe then give you the drugs.

It really depends on how good you are at medical stuff.
I ... do it all the time? Not when it comes to mood disorders but with everything else, I read medical books and stuff like that. Anyway, used to. Mom's a doctor and we talk about illnesses all the time.
But of course you need to go to the doctor's if it's something serious.
-shrug-
But I don't like doctors. All the books are there, and the internet is there and I'm all sick there, it keeps me entertained. It's like a riddle.

dark.:

Fehlen.:

ChemicallyImbalanced:

A doctor won't prescribe you meds or anything if you just walk in and say you have the illness.

That's screaming "Substance abuse!".

:shifty
I'm rather sure the doctor will just ask in a calm voice ''and why do you believe that?'' after you tell him and maybe then give you the drugs.

They'll examine you, check out your symptoms, run some tests, and then diagnose you and if necessary, give you a prescription. If not and you are lying about it or there really is nothing wrong with you, they'll suggest seeing a counsellor or other things you can do. Otherwise they will send you home.

I have an appointment with my psychologist tomorrow.

Last time I was there I managed to convince him I'm fine and there's no problem. For the past month or so I've been very low fairly often, and pretty melancholic for most of the time. The only things to break it are the odd panic or explosion of anger.

The other night I had a bit of a crisis. I hadn't called my boyfriend for a week even though I wanted to, because I felt I had nothing to say to him at all (this is unusual for me, as I know we can have a great chat about nothing at all, so I don't ever need a *reason* to call him), I hadn't showered in 3 days and wasn't intending to because what is the point?, and my place was an absolute mess and I couldn't see the use in even trying to tidy it. I was getting more and more agitated and frustrated when my neighbour kept knocking at my door and I *could not* face her, she talks for hours and I knew I would go mental at her, so I ignored it. I was *so* lonely but it was like I'd forgotten how to actually talk to people...I couldn't bring myself to phone my boyfriend because it was like I was physically unable to even say 'hello' or start a conversation. That's what scared me, because even when I am very down, just talking to him lifts my spirits, but for some reason I just couldn't call him that night. I couldn't even call one of my friends because I was scared my neighbour would hear me on the phone and come back because she'd know for sure that I was in.

In general my sleeping and eating patterns are non-existant. I'll not eat or sleep for days, then I'll have a spell of sleeping for upwards of 14 hours, only waking to wolf down so much food I get sick.

I wonder if I should be telling the psychologist this stuff or not...

^I think it's important that you do. Those are classic symptoms and it's much easier if you tell them what you've written here. It will help them help you.

ChemicallyImbalanced:

^I think it's important that you do. Those are classic symptoms and it's much easier if you tell them what you've written here. It will help them help you.

I know logic says that, but every time I go in there I switch into safe mode and pretend there's no problem.

He's a nice doctor and all, but thanks to my mother I have serious issues with trusting health professionals, and I prefer to be left to my own devices. Last time I was there and someone mentioned antidepressants, I just about ran away.

It sucks feeling the way I do but I'm scared of what might happen if I am diagnosed with anything. Also as it's the uni health service, a mate of mine has me terrified because he says they put everything on your record that lecturers etc. can see.

Maybe you could tell them some of it? Even one thing that you haven't told them would help. :cute:

ChemicallyImbalanced:

Maybe you could tell them some of it? Even one thing that you haven't told them would help. :cute:

Well I kind of wussed out again...but I did tell him about what happened with my mum on my birthday, and that I've been in a 'weird' mood since then.

I have to see him again in 2 weeks, maybe I'll write some of this stuff down in case I chicken out again.

^ Writing it down is a good idea. That way even if you can't tell him, he can still read what you've written. :cute:

my mom found out i was cutting and got me tested for depression and the test came back positive...its nice to know that im not the only one goinh through a sucky time

BeautifulSoul4U:

my mom found out i was cutting and got me tested for depression and the test came back positive...its nice to know that im not the only one goinh through a sucky time

That strikes me as an odd sentence.

It makes getting diagnosed with Depression seem the same as taking a pregnancy test. It's probably just the way your worded it, but I've never thought of people who might have Depression as going to the doctor's and just getting "tested" and then getting it back "positive", or negative. It has more to do with discovering you're depressed by having counseling sessions and taking a look at what depression symptoms one may have, I would have thought.

^ Yeah, it's really not like that.

I've been going to different psychiatrists and counselors since I was about twelve. They don't start off with "oh, take this test and we'll see what the results say". I've had to fill in papers and do certain tests with questions like "do you wish to kill yourself?" and stuff like that. But when I got 'diagnosed' with depression, it wasn't just because of that. I had to go once a week and talk to my psychiatrist and it actually took a long time before they said I was depressed. If it was just to fill in some papers and answer some questions, people would say they were extremely depressed just to get drugs.

My dad thinks he may be bi polar.
He doesn't have money to see a doctor, but the last time we went to a book store he was looking through books about bi polar disorder and almost bought one.
I don't know. I don't really think he has it because he always seems so calm, but he's extremely good at hiding his emotions, so what do I know? I hardly ever see him or talk to him anyway, so if he was bi polar I'd never know.