Who diagnosed you and why ?

[grommet]

Jw how the process happend for some people , I would like to take a test myself because iam not diagnosed , I should stress maybe my symptoms don't lead to aspergers and lie some where else I just see a lot of familiar story's . Anyway i don't know if I should make the first step? My lines complicate things because of my other mental issues but none the less let me know

I was diagnosed by a neuropsychologist who tested me during appointments over a period of three months.

 

[shakeitup94]

I'd known for years something was weird with me and then a friend who's bipolar noticed I wasn't myself and convinced me to go to the doctors and I was first diagnosed with depression, then that became bipolar (actually Cyclothymia which is mild bipolar), then I went to another doctor when my first one retired who said no you have nothing but I knew that wasn't right, so I went to another one who said they thought it was Aspergers, maybe with depression, maybe not, he hadn't seen me in that state so... then when I got depressed again he tried to put me on antidepressants which REALLY didn't go well the first time I skipped out on him and went to another doctor who said maybe it's Aspergers AND Cyclothymia. Which is not uncommon, but is also often misdiagnosed as one or the other so who knows what I'll be told next.

 

[Astroganga]

I haven't been diagnosed with Asperger's yet, however I was diagnosed with moderate to severe clinical depression and anxiety disorder in my teens-by two psychiatrists at a day unit I was admitted to, however some things they said still stick in my mind, such as them not being entirely convinced that it was just clinical depression, one reason being that I could self-analyse just how depressed I was and recognised how it wasn't rational and with how severe my symptoms seemed I shouldn't have been able to do that. They also said that the presentation of the depression was something they would expect to see in older adults, and they had not seen it in a teenager before despite their experience. It could just be that they were not that good at their job, biased or prejudiced but maybe the presentation was not typical because I have Asperger's?

 

[Odd Duck 1357]

Hubby made me go to therapy because "I'm the cause of most of our marital problems." Jerk. Found a cognitive therapist to help me change some of my odd behaviors; he's the one who called it Asperger's. Stopped going to therapy because hubby's premise is statistically impossible. Unless you're an Aspie.

 

[Odd Duck 1357]

Quote [doctor who said maybe it's Aspergers AND Cyclothymia. Which is not uncommon, but is also often misdiagnosed as one or the other so who knows what I'll be told next.[/QUOTE]

I think our desire and desperation to fit in causes secondary issues like depression, cyclothymia, OCD and so on. It's pretty depressing to be almost normal, but not quite, to try to blend in but be unable to.

 

[Häxan]

I was diagnosed by a leading specialist in Sweden. I was diagnosed after my son was diagnosed because those who gave him his diagnosis also suspected me to be autistic, they stated that it was quite obvious to them. My daughters are also autistic.

 

[Mr Allen]

Some Foreign Doctor at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital in October 1999.

It all came about because my Brother's GF, who is now my Sister in law, was working with Autistic adults in a home in Gloucester, England at the time and kept passing comment on how I was like some of her clients in the home when she came up to Sheffield with my Brother.

So her and my Brother went on various search engines (it was 1999, Google wasn't a thing yet) and found loads of information and my Parents took it to our Doctor, and from there the diagnosis process began.