Posted by Adam on July 7, 2001, at 12:15:32
In reply to Okay, got a stupid question..., posted by tina on July 6, 2001, at 13:32:49
I spent a lot of time trying to figure out "what I was" exactly, some of it on this site. My guess is my form of depression is a bit atypical, and there's also the other DX to tack on, an OCD-spectrum disorder I won't dilute the issue with here.
I think the sad truth is, especially when it gets to the spectrum of affective disorders, specific diagnoses aren't always that helpful in finding specific rememdies. Individual variance in response to drug and talk therapies of sundry kinds can confound the best efforts to classify, often rendering the classifications of dubious importance. It seems to me, in my own experience, and from what I have heard from many others, outside of the most broad forms of catagorization (e.g. affective, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, bipoar disorders), it's not easy to be sure of much. The diagnostic tools just aren't that powerful.
Hopefully in the future that will change. Again, to use myself as an example, given my dual diagnosis, I could come up with as many reasons or more NOT to take selegiline as to take it. That high-dose selegiline has largely rid me of the effects of a depressive disorder, and that I can augment it with CBT to deal with other issues, are now the only relevant facts before me.
> What if you want to diagnose yourself? I have seen 5 different psych's and one social worker in my 12 years as a panic/depression sufferer and NONE of them have diagnosed me with ANYTHING. I ask them what I have and they say I'm depressed and too tense and then just "talk" to me or just sit there and "listen" like marble busts. I'm wondering if there is a website where you can answer questions or fill in a form and get SOME idea of what you've got wrong with you? Anyone know of anything like this...salarmy4me perhaps?
> thanks
> tina
> Oh, and don't tell me this kind of "loose" dxing is dangerous ok. I just want to get some kind of idea where I fit in. I'll go to a 'real' doc for meds and stuff but I want to know what the hell I have wrong with me. I'm tired of being "fallen between the cracks girl"
poster:Adam
thread:7125
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20010706/msgs/7155.html