Self Diagnosis Hate Thread - This is a thread to scream about people saying they have a disorder/disability and not/never having that shit on paper, especially if you do.

[a pissing jar]

(I bet I'm making this in the midst of a mental break, but cant tell)
I am getting sick of how much "tiktokified" disorders and disabilities, especially already stigmatized ones, are getting. And what's worse are with rare ones, like Dissociative Identity Disorder(DID).
There is something I was working on that required me to send out a form to a many different groups that state they have DID (and i was careful where I went, no 14yos, no weird shit possibly going on), and in the form I did ask if they were ever diagnosed. 100% OF THE PEOPLE SAID "NO"!!! NOT ONE OF THEM!! HOW??? What's worse is what they worried most about was "SELF EXPRESSION." I am actually diagnosed and would not have answered like that for things I likely need related to this disorder.
MY DATA IS FUCKED!!

IM ALSO FUCKING PISSED ABOUT HOW THESE SELF DIAGNOSED RETARDS POLICE WHAT CAN AND CAN'T HAPPEN IN A DISORDER THEY NEVER GOT CHECKED TO SEE IF THEY ACTUALLY HAVE. And things that are actually really painful and exhausting symptoms that aren't in the basic "Pubmed" description either they aren't dealing with or if they know a little bit on it they act like it's no big deal and a cute thing to show off.
FUCK THESE PEOPLE GENUINELY FUCK THEM.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Getting an "official" diagnosis for any kind of psychological disorder is just as much of a joke as self-diagnosis. Psychology is an unserious field of medicine.

 

[PositiveMonk]

Getting an "official" diagnosis for any kind of psychological disorder is just as much of a joke as self-diagnosis. Psychology is an unserious field of medicine.

I'm inclined to agree. Lately I've been convinced that depression diagnoses are just a way for people to feel like victims and not take responsibility for their own actions or happiness. If I hear from one more sad brained retard that they "can't do their best".

 

[a pissing jar]

Getting an "official" diagnosis for any kind of psychological disorder is just as much of a joke as self-diagnosis. Psychology is an unserious field of medicine.

Not gonna lie in this day and age it feels more like that sometimes with some of the shit ive seen.

 

[a pissing jar]

I'm inclined to agree. Lately I've been convinced that depression diagnoses are just a way for people to feel like victims and not take responsibility for their own actions or happiness. If I hear from one more sad brained retard that they "can't do their best".

People need to stop eating junk food all the time, that's the best medicine for most cases of "depression." Get some b12 in your system.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

I am getting sick of how much "tiktokified" disorders and disabilities, especially already stigmatized ones, are getting.

I for one, welcome the democratization of it. Where are the hobby heart surgery tiktoks? Exactly, almost anyone can read the DSM, understand that shit and pin it on someone, it's just quackery and the "professionals" make it up as they go the same as the laymen.
If this this manages to kill the "field" in the long run, good riddance. The cows need their mental health tiktok zoo, and I ain't gonna disturb the exhibits either.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Lately I've been convinced that depression diagnoses are just a way for people to feel like victims and not take responsibility for their own actions or happiness.

Regardless of your position on the real-ness of such things, it's based entirely on self-reporting.

If doctors diagnosed broken legs exclusively by how convincingly a patient described their leg pain without anything tangible to independently verify a broken bone and the treatment was to apply a cast despite not even the experts in the field understanding what casts do and the prognosis correlating strongly with how much the patient believes the treatment works, I'd call that an unserious field as well.

 

[TheMeanOne]

I worked on a construction site with someone who legitimately has Tourette's. The only job he can get is sweeping up on a construction site. He's not a bad guy but it's alarming when you first meet him, he has involuntary movements and is shouting a lot of the time. It's not a small thing, he's never gonna have a girlfriend. He's never gonna have a job where it's more skilled or where he deals with the public.

Pretending to have some of these disorders is really messed up. People who really have them have very limited lives, it's almost like making fun of them to fake having it.

 

[Osmosis Jones]

If doctors diagnosed broken legs exclusively by how convincingly a patient described their leg pain without anything tangible to independently verify a broken bone and the treatment was to apply a cast despite not even the experts in the field understanding what casts do, I'd call that an unserious field as well.

Psychology is like if the bone doctor said you have a broken leg and then six checkups later he finds that it's actually your arm that's broken. Psychology is like an oncologist talking to you about dying from cancer instead of treating your cancer, and giving you pain medication in the meantime.

Psychology is a goddamn joke when you find out all of our theories stem from a nasty weirdo who posited all of your psychological tendencies stem from childhood and wanting to fuck your own mom. It's even more of a joke as a medical field when you find out that a lot of schools of thought in the field of traditional and classical psychology include elements of religion, symbology, constellation reading, alchemy, magic, and philosophy.

Modern psychology is a meme pharmaceutical field which has completely lost touch with historical psychology and its meaning and goals. Now it just seeks to pathologize and correct human social behavior where it used to explore human nature and individuality. Now we partake in chemical soft lobotomies and emotional castration so the proles will work the machines.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Now we partake in chemical soft lobotomies and emotional castration

I don't agree with this either. People criticize drugs like antidepressants for having such extreme "happy pill" effects when the reality is that they barely have any fucking effect at all. Being able to soft lobotomize or emotionally castrate people would be more impressive and useful than what such drugs actually do.

 

[a pissing jar]

I worked on a construction site with someone who legitimately has Tourette's. The only job he can get is sweeping up on a construction site. He's not a bad guy but it's alarming when you first meet him, he has involuntary movements and is shouting a lot of the time. It's not a small thing, he's never gonna have a girlfriend. He's never gonna have a job where it's more skilled or where he deals with the public.

Pretending to have some of these disorders is really messed up. People who really have them have very limited lives, it's almost like making fun of them to fake having it.

I understand this deeply and not gonna lie have the same sort of fears for myself. It's almost impossible for me to have actual relationships with people, whether it be me being "two-faced," agoraphobia, and a bunch of other shit that's hard to explain. I've only had a girlfriend once, and I don't know what happened between us. All I know is I am the one that technically broke up with her, and she's really traumatized now. It haunts me that I don't know what I did to her. What if that other me physically attacked her too? It's happened before with other people. (spoiled my power leveling/getting stupid with it)

 

[Osmosis Jones]

I don't agree with this either. People criticize drugs like antidepressants for having such extreme "happy pill" effects when the reality is that they barely have any fucking effect at all.

Lobotomies didn't make people happy. They were used to control those who could not be corrected. We use SSRIs almost exclusively as antidepressants despite there being maybe one study claiming to connect Serotonin with mood disorders. We don't know that, there's zero proof of it. What we do know it does for sure is makes people more docile and less reactive and reduces instances of severe mental episodes for certain disorders and reduces the intensity of experienced emotions. It also has an effect on appetite, libido, sexual performance, weight gain and loss, learning ability, memory retention, etc. This is, as with everything else, based on self-reporting and not tangible evidence of a change. We use SSRIs to control behavior, not improve lives.

 

[a pissing jar]

I agree a good amount with some of these opinions, but I think I wanted to focus more on things that are self diagnosed without any insight of any other sort of "professional"

 

[.iota.]

Modern psychology is a meme pharmaceutical field which has completely lost touch with historical psychology and its meaning and goals. Now it just seeks to pathologize and correct human social behavior where it used to explore human nature and individuality.

psychology rarely involves prescribing medication; what you're describing is the field of psychiatry.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I wanted to focus more on things that are self diagnosed without any insight of any other sort of "professional"

We don't care.

 

[Cats]

Everyone around me including my entire family keeps trying to tell me that I have Rumplestiltskin Syndrome but I don't. The two major symptoms are chipmunk facies and gaitwiggle and I have neither one of those. So they're wrong.

 

[Cats]

question for OP: have you ever pissed in a jar in real? like in your room or w/e

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

People criticize drugs like antidepressants for having such extreme "happy pill" effects when the reality is that they barely have any fucking effect at all.

Those aren't the right "happy pills". But besides that, there's def. some hardcore zombifier meds in use, mostly psychiatric.
I worked a short lived stint in an insane asylum, err, looney bin, no that's wrong, "mental hospital" and that shit's effect was uncanny.
Literally that homer simpson meme with the pupils going wide and phasing out after taking something. Don't even know the names.
The worst part isn't the emotional castration, that's not happening, it's high jacking your feefees and tethering them to the man,
which is what this fields tries to do relentlessly.
They tell you how to deal with your problems, what feeling is "good", which feeling isn't.
None of that works well, true, but they can break and chemically lobotomize people all right.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

there's def. some hardcore zombifier meds in use, mostly psychiatric.
I worked a short lived stint in an insane asylum, err, looney bin, no that's wrong, "mental hospital" and that shit's effect was uncanny.
Literally that homer simpson meme with the pupils going wide and phasing out after taking something.

Oh yeah, those drugs exist, but they're not the second and third-gen antidepressants that are prescribed so ubiquitously for every supposed malady under the sun and that people wring their hands over so much.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

Oh yeah, those drugs exist, but they're not the second and third-gen antidepressants that are prescribed so ubiquitously for every supposed malady under the sun and that people wring their hands over so much.

Some of those are still pretty intense from what I know second hand, one woman I know basically can't orgasm when she's on them. They def. fuck you up, too.
I am inclined to believe that they are already enough to zombify some people to an already bothersome degree.
They def. don't do what they're supposed to or rather, what the patient thinks should happen, that much is clear.