The only one not diagnosed with.. something?

[Zygen 6,065]

Ok, now i don't actually mean this literally(Atleast i hope not) but i just wanted to say that I feel like IRL and alot of other places i'm like the only one who isn't diagnosed with some kind of disorder or something.

 

Don't get me wrong! Its not like i necessarily want one(Well not exactly, its complicated) and i also have lots of respect for those diagnosed with different stuff. I mean i already have enough trouble dealing with my "Normal" life.

 

But like, i feel like i'm in the minority alot of times, it seems like all the people i know have something from a more common and known disorder, to a more abstract one.

 

Again i mean not to offend anyone, i just feel.. Alone almost? Its a weird thing to describe. but like, i'm not the only one not diagnosed with anything? I'm pretty sure i'm not, but i just felt like it was the easiest way to express my feeling.

 

I have kinda found the thought of having a disorder interesting to think about, but i know that i don't want one, because i'm sure they present many challenges.

 

But you know, anyone who knows me knows i'm curious, so maybe its just that.

 

So anyways, again i hope no one is offended by this, i'm just curious. 

 

Thanks for reading my rambling thoughts ;p. Have a great day!

[Nerdy Luigi 2,064]

I was diagnosed with pneumonia when I was 2 years old. But not one CURRENTLY.

Unless, you count self-diagnosis, then I have been diagnosed with cyclothymia, a not so major version of bipolar disorder. As well as social anxiety and OCD, but that's extremely minor.

Edited December 5, 2013 by Twilight Sniper

[Smarts 1,621]

I am not diagnosed with anything, except ugliness. I am a normal guy, living a normal life.

[ghostfacekiller39 23,857]

Well...

 

 

...I've got heart problems; I've got a very weak myocardium (the muscle in your heart) which gives me problems daily, especially when I get stressed and my heart starts beating fast; it'll beat much harder and faster than it would have to with a person without this problem, because of a lack of strength. It causes me a lot of physical pain when it does this. It's also reduced my expected lifespan from the average to 55 years old, so, yeahh. I take meds for it, usually some sort of vitamin supplement and a blood thinner so the blood will pump easier, but gahh...I hate it.

 

 

I've also got ADHD, but that's something that's easier to keep under control, because the pill does its job

Edited December 5, 2013 by ~Sadistic ghostfk39~

[Doc. Volt 2,561]

i noticed that americans tend to diagnose everything! obsessive comulsive disorders etc etc.. here in Italy they just don't care.. 99% of italians never saw a psycologist... i have been diagnosed a sickle-cell anemia, not dangerous.. i just can't get HIV, AIDS or Malaria... pretty nice isn't it?

[Moonbacon 384]

i don't i rarely goto a doctor i sense i don't any mental disorders other than minor depression.

 

@Doc. Volt 

 

ooo thats awesome 

[lomk 20,663]

I've been diagnosed with ADHD. I was also diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, but the doctor ran no tests on me. She just said that it was safe to assume that I had it because the two run hand in hand. I protested this and after about fifteen minutes of demanding I be tested for it just to be sure, she agreed. 

 

After about 7½ hours of testing, they decided that I definitely did not have Asperger syndrome.

 

They also determined my processing speed was in the 91st percentile lol

[twilight24 321]

I have Aspergers' OCD, depression and anxiety but those were relevant my entire life. And you can sort of tell when a baby has Asperger's or autism, because they may be a bit developmentally delayed or they will scream, scream. scream

[Treble Bolt 1,122]

I've been through foster care in America.   They use foster care kids as guinea pigs (I am serious).  I was diagnosed with (drumroll) ADHD, Mood Disorder NOS,Autism Reactive Attachment Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, and that's all I can remember off hand. 

At one time, I was taking 14 pills morning, noon, and night while in foster care, and I couldn't say "no" (or else they'd force feed them).

 

I can agree with the Reactive Attachment Disorder and the PTSD (I've was horribly abused and neglected as a child), but the others were either forced upon me (to give me pills) or were a real problem at the time because I was so psychologically alone. There are still some things I have problems with that stem from the ones I can obviously see I have....

 

BUT, I'm not a 'normal' case....I've been through some severe trauma, most people on this forum don't have anywhere near the problems I have.  I will agree that America is run by pharmaceutical companies and thus in America, "there's a pill for everything" (sigh).  It's a bunch of BS if I say so myself.....

 

edit: I take NO prescription pills now, by choice. I do take vitamins, and sometimes St. John's Wart for my depression (if nothing else I do helps). Otherwise, I just take my life day by day, and depending on my mental strength, it suffices.

Edited December 5, 2013 by Treble Bolt

[Doc. Volt 2,561]

i repeat... you americans should stay away from psycologist... attention disorder? bah, ocd? who has not an ocd? come on guys! the world just look at you like you were all crazy or with problems! we are far worst than you! we are selfish crazy idiots and nobody gives us silly mental desease names! it is just stupid! what is normality then? everyone equal to the other? come on! make me a favour! craziness is happy! craziness is living! if people don't consider you crazy or different then you are not enjoing life completely! come on! smile smile smile! ahahah! let's party!

pills? what are pills? drink this glass of fine italian wine and everything will return allright! see!? no? still depress? well why don't u get a party with some spritz with us?.. man too much pills... you should stop it... the only pills we have to take are digestive pills when you eat like a pig during traditional festivals!

[Ruddboy Olaf 10,627]

Yes,I have been diagnosed with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy.

 

I am epileptic. Which is weird,cause no one in my family is epileptic.

You can read more about it here.

 

Basically,it means,it's easier for me to trigger seizures.

Triggers

• Drinking alcohol
• Strobe lights
• Sleep deprivation

Also,means,I will have these myoclonic jerks at some times.

 

Other than that,I have anxiety and depression.

 

But,that's all I know of.

 

 

Edited December 6, 2013 by Ebenezer

[Malinter 3,064]

I have Dyspraxia which is listed under the umbrella known as "Autistic Spectrum Disorders" which includes Dislexia, Aspergers and ofcourse Autism itself. Not sure is ADHD or ADD are included as well.

 

Dyspraxia effects co-ordination, namely fine motor skills. How badly it effects your movement can range from barely able to walk unassisted to a slight gait to your walking pattern (mine is this, i'd call it mild).

 

Dyspraxia also effects spacial awareness so one might bump into things and other people and not even realise it

 

It can also effect Short-Term Logic Memory, mine is crap, i can't remember multiple things in my head for barely a few seconds and it vanishes as if you'd never even spoken them to me. On the upside my long term memory is very good.... almost too good... *shudders*

 

Theres no medicine for this, at most there's pyshsiotherapy which helps improve walking ability but beyond that, just have to live with it XD.

Edited December 5, 2013 by Malinter

[Techite Sparkle 354]

Well. I have somewhat mild OCD. Sorta serious ADHD. And Anxiety. This tends to really suck at times

[ghostfacekiller39 23,857]

I've been through foster care in America.   They use foster care kids as guinea pigs (I am serious).  

Yep. I know that to be true.

 

Once I got out of the foster care system, though, I started going to a different doctor, and she just took me off 9 of the 11 pills I was on

 

Now I only take ADHD meds and Anti-depressants, plus my blood thinners I talked about earlier

[Celtore 2,769]

I haven't been diagnosed with anything. Truth be told, I don't think if I've ever gone to a psychologist or a councillor... Oh well, let's just keep it that way.

[Swick (ded) 436]

According to my parents, I don't have ADHD or OCD, but I swear I do. Like, I literally can't think at all if something is off. I suffer especially from this imaginary thing that I call symmetrical OCD. Everything I do has to be symmetric. If I get one hand wet, I have to get the other one wet too. If I scratch one arm, I need to scratch the other. It's really, really weird. But I've never been diagnosed with anything, strange enough.

[Commander Tangent 861]

I dont have anything really except for ADHD, but it doesn't  really effect me since I'm already a crazy person.

[Obsolete 681]

I have the usual Depression/Anxiety diagnosis from licensed psychologists. Other, less official sources like family, friends and the internet have diagnosed me with everything from Asperger's Syndrome to Paranoid Schizophrenia. We love to put labels on things, so if you haven't been diagnosed with anything, chances are you're just not talking to the right people.

[Shanks 10,811]

You are who you are condition, diagnosis or not. The biggest mistake anyone with a condition could make is to let is consume their entire being, any condition is a part of a person but is not the whole story. I have Autism and I won't deny that my life would have turned out differently had I not had it and it presents its own challenges but it is such a broad diverse spectrum that no one person even on a similar point on the spectrum is exactly the same. I didn't learn to talk until I was 5 but some people with Autism never learn to talk yet some of them can still communicate in other ways and some of them learn to talk at a "normal" age but can have delays in other areas. I was diagnosed at age 2 but some are not diagnosed until later in childhood and some not even into well into adulthood.

 

The reason why it seems like you are one of the few on here who dosen't have a diagnosis is both because fandoms tend to attract introverted people many of which tend to have Autism or similar conditions and the fact that people with said diagnosis tend to stand out a bit more. It is a lot easier to remember someone who is a bit different than someone who is "normal" (I hate that word).

[SparklingSwirls 21,262]

I'm kind of a weird case. I began to have anxiety problems at one point, but now I take pills. However, the pills don't control my anxiety; they control the problem I had that was causing me the anxiety. So I can't say I've been diagnosed with anything; and heck, I don't technically need to take these pills - but I still take them because they sure make life a whole lot easier for me! (I would mention what the pill does, but it's kind of an awkward thing to talk about)

[Toaster Bot 183]

I haven't been diagnosed with any mental disorder, though I have never seen a doctor at any point in time, so who knows? People who are unqualified to diagnose me have given various guesses such as Asperger's Syndrome, social anxiety (which I wouldn't doubt), and even go as far as depression. And I don't have any health issues unless we can count farsightedness. 

Edited December 5, 2013 by Dr. Ivo Robotnik

[Mephala 2,633]

According to my parents, I don't have ADHD or OCD, but I swear I do. Like, I literally can't think at all if something is off. I suffer especially from this imaginary thing that I call symmetrical OCD. Everything I do has to be symmetric. If I get one hand wet, I have to get the other one wet too. If I scratch one arm, I need to scratch the other. It's really, really weird. But I've never been diagnosed with anything, strange enough.

I'm like that as well, I think most people are in some way or another, haha.

 

Anyways, I do have one, so you aren't alone; mine is a (so far as I was told) trauma-based disorder called depersonalization disorder (more commonly DPD). This causes me to feel a lot of, well, depersonalization (ex. feeling like I have no control over my actions, only watching myself do things, emotional detachment, inability to identify myself in images or reflections, out of body experiences I don't WANT, etc.) and a more minor case of derealization (which basically means the world seems dream-like). It has caused a lot of issues in my life with thoughts of suicide, etc.

 

I tried medication but it made me really angry and caused mood spikes, so I stopped. It's not as bad as it used to be, though.

 

However, I'd beg to differ about a lot of people having disorders since so many are fakes; I know a girl who pretended to have schizophrenia to get attention and make people sorry for her. However, she clearly had no idea what it was. I also know a guy who literally stated he had 16 different personalities he couldn't control.

For those of us that DO have them, I think the appeal of a fandom is that people can find others like them. They don't have to see others face-to-face which makes that easier. Anonymity is half the downfall and half the upside.

 

Edit: grammar mistake.

Edited December 5, 2013 by Queenie

[Sabrinie 391]

Being in a field where I will be working with psychiatrists on a daily basis has taught me that a LOT of people are misdiagnosed. Many people aren't being treated for what they actually have and unfortunately a lot of doctors are diagnosing and prescribing things to people who don't actually have anything wrong with them. I'm not saying you shouldn't trust your doctors, but a second opinion never hurts. 

[DerpLeOtakuz 43]

Again i mean not to offend anyone, i just feel.. Alone almost? Its a weird thing to describe. but like, i'm not the only one not diagnosed with anything? I'm pretty sure i'm not, but i just felt like it was the easiest way to express my feelings

But you know, anyone who knows me knows i'm curious, so maybe its just that.

 

So anyways, again i hope no one is offended by this, i'm just curious.

 

Thanks for reading my rambling thoughts ;p. Have a great day!

I'm not diagnosed with anything...

However, I'm being tested for ADD and ADHD.

[PoisonClaw 8,153]

I haven't been official diagnosed with anything yet, but even my family is starting to wonder if I don't have some kind of mental disability (for lack of a better word) or something. Two things that wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if I ended up being diagnosed with would be either Aspergers or OCPD, if only that I seem to fit all the symptoms to a tee,