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Basic psychological evaluation... again

So, my first evaluation (both the one for MIs and for autism and ADHD) was made in an unprofessional way, so now I have to redo it. It's good that Inow is in a special "department" where they know about autism and ofc it's good to know what I have and don't have and how my "autism profile" actually look like. But it's also very tiredsome and tough.
This monday I started with the re-evaluation for MIs and had to answer on a lot of questions (from something called MINI).
I got high scores on several thing (which doesn't necessary mean I have all thoose diagnosis, some stuff belongs to each other), which was: depression, anxiety (incl. PTSD and SAD), self harming behaviour, suicide thoughts and eating disorders.
This was the first time the psychiatry got to know about my eating problems and self image and such. No one have ever asked before and I haven't thought about saying anything, well I tried once but got the answer it was just me trying to "seek attention". So after that I thought it was just normal, but now I'm starting to understand that maybe it's not completely normal, but I don't think I have a real eating disorder either. I guess I'm somewhere in between.
Next appointment is the 24th of May.

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I always find this interesting when seeing a therapist. They expect you to put everything that seems to be a problem out on the table, including every "deeper" layer.

If evaluating myself would be that simple, why would I even need "professional" help? Wouldn't you think, that if I know why I'm depressed, at some point I'll try to "fix" this myself. Besides "seeking attention" is a dangerous thing to think if you're a "professional". What if something goes wrong... is it a "oh, we didn't think it was that serious"? And even if it would be attention seeking, there's probably a few disorders that "benefit" from that behaviour as a diagnosis.
 
King_Oni;bt1987 said:
I always find this interesting when seeing a therapist. They expect you to put everything that seems to be a problem out on the table, including every "deeper" layer.

If evaluating myself would be that simple, why would I even need "professional" help? Wouldn't you think, that if I know why I'm depressed, at some point I'll try to "fix" this myself. Besides "seeking attention" is a dangerous thing to think if you're a "professional". What if something goes wrong... is it a "oh, we didn't think it was that serious"? And even if it would be attention seeking, there's probably a few disorders that "benefit" from that behaviour as a diagnosis.

I don't really get your anger here. My psychiatrist is very good.
And even when you know why you are depressed you would probably need help to get rid of it anyway and often other ppl think of things you miss yourself. The person who said that about "attention seeking" was a staff member when I was an inward patient in a completely different city from where I live now. During that time I also was misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder and hadn't even got my autism and adhd diagnosis yet.
 
Oh... it wasn't meant as an "angry rant"... I guess that's my normal mode, heh.
 

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