Has anyone else been diagnosed with a health/mental disorder?

**sturmwalkure** · 07-26-2009, 04:24 PM

I have Anxiety Disorder and I think I may also have Hypochondriasis (my paternal grandmother has it and I've been noticing it more in myself recently). Don't be surprised if I think I am dying again like I was yesterday. My grandmother thinks she is dying once a week.

Otherwise I am fairly healthy.

**Piparskeggr** · 07-26-2009, 04:35 PM

Good day Elfichka;

As I have written at length elsewhere, I was diagnosed with Clinical Depression a little over 4 years ago. This was exacerbated by my too great a fondness for whiskey; I self-medicated a lot.

I was on medication for a year and cut way back on the ethanol ingestion. Aside from bouts of procrastination and reclusiveness, I seem to be okay now.

**Kempenzoon** · 07-26-2009, 04:45 PM

A psychiatrist I knew in college is convinced that I have either asocial personality disorder or borderline personality disorder, but he couldn't tell for sure he claimed without some in-depth talks and tests. I told him I wasn't interested in being diagnosed though.

All it's good for is that I'd be drugged on gov't selected pills to alter the state of my mind. And I'm pretty proud of my mind, so don't want it interfered with by chemicals.

**The Lawspeaker** · 07-26-2009, 04:51 PM

I have been diagnosed (without any prior tests) with a mild form of PDD-NOS when I was 14/15. In those days it was quite common to "diagnose" children in care as for each diagnosed child they received subsidies.

I always refused any medication and only took seroxat for a brief time when I was 18 to fight depression, which failed and made me sicker (headaches, dizziness etc) so I quit taking those (oddly enough my depression was suddenly gone as well).

**~~Troll's Puzzle~~** · 07-26-2009, 05:22 PM

Yes, I have Updog.

**Piparskeggr** · 07-26-2009, 05:40 PM

What's Updog?

T'ain't nothin', man...

**Germanicus** · 07-26-2009, 05:52 PM

After the death of my father in 2004 i went through a form of depression, the fact that my marriage ended a month after he was buried did not help much.
Lack of sleep and a poor diet all have effects on the mind.
In my case i did not need medication as i had good friends to get me through the trauma of my life at the time.
Briefly i self medicated with alcohol, but that did not last long.
Happily i am glad to say i am well, and have a positive attitude, towards life and the future....