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-Did you know a mental illness or disability is a MEDICAL CONIDTION?-
and just like any other medical condition it has to be officially diagnosed by a medical doctor before you are considered to have it.

More serious mental disabilities like Asperger’s or Autism often require a doctor to refer a patient to a specialist who has the knowledge to appropriately diagnose it in a way others are not able to.

Every time you say you have a condition when it has not been properly diagnosed with you make life harder for those who truly do have it.

So please think about us.

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Actually within five minutes of talking to the head of the aspergers diagnostic team, I'm not sure what you would call them, She said that without a doubt I had aspergers.
I have had the fortune to have not run into those who try to use it when they do not have it, luckily.
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~Favninthedirewolf Jan 29, 2013  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Unless they are a bloody hypochondriac. I also know personally that I have some mental illnesses like autism, depression and schizophrenia because it is written all over my genes and I have had many, many tests done when I was very little.
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*psycho-otaku-nerd Jan 9, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
I dont care if someone self diagnosis IF they have researched it very well they seem like they actually have it. People like Sugar Motta on glee who don't know wtf they are doing and have no clue wtf it is but just use it as an excuse to be a bitch. that's what pisses me off.
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~minustwoseventhree Dec 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
No.
Because I'm not going to the doctor to get an "official diagnosis" for something that I know I have.
Why not, you ask?
Because aside from the crippling anxiety that makes it almost impossible to talk to my doctor about these things, I'm not willing to. I don't want my mental illness to be on my records, because I don't want future employers and colleges to look at them and make judgements because of them. And no, that shouldn't happen, but until the stigma dies down or completely disappears, I don't want to be diagnosed.

Other than that, there's many reasons why someone can't be diagnosed. Like me, they may be too anxious to speak to a professional, they may not have access if they're younger or live in a rural area, they may not have the money to visit a professional, etc.

There's a lot of people who, if they hadn't diagnosed themselves first, would never have been diagnosed. A lot of people spend months, if not years, looking up these things up before they reach a conclusion.
Yes, it's always best to get a proper diagnosis from someone who is qualified to do so, but the whole "You don't have it unless you've been diagnosed" is really close minded.
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~Kairi96-Z Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Which mental disorder you think you have?
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~minustwoseventhree Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Depression and Borderline. Why?
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~Kairi96-Z Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Because you can understand if you have depression, even without an expert telling you. But borderline... it's hard. All the people I met in my life with borderline weren't even able to realize they had it, and all of them were locked up into a mental health center. And however, if you have a disorder, in the 90% of the cases you're not able to realize you have one. To say it shortly, your self-awereness will probably suck. I can tell you this by experience, because I've been diagnosed with Asperger's and ADHD, the experts say I also show schitzofrenic, OCD and bipolar traits and I got through all my life thinking I was perfectly normal and that all the other were the weird and crazy ones, until my mother told me when I was 13 about my diagnosis, and I still think I'm normal and the others are weird.
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~minustwoseventhree Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Yeah, but I've looked into it a lot. And I don't know, if anything, I feel I'm too self-aware? I knew I had Asperger's and ADD before I was even diagnosed with it, and that was when I was 7.
And I wouldn't be surprised if I had it, considering my father and grandmother have had it, so...
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~Kairi96-Z Dec 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
You are lucky. You can at last realize it. I can't. I would like to be a self-aware person, but my self-awareness just sucks.
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=Kataang102 Dec 9, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
as a person that is officaly dignosied by a professional, I hate when people self dignoise themselves with somthing like this
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