The Virgo said:
JoJoDeathunter said:
Alkaline said:
About the only thing more trendy than people self-diagnosing is people going full white-knight mode and accusing people of self-diagnosing, regardless of whether or not that person's actually got the bloody documents to say so.
It's no surprise either, to see that many of the people doing this have "nothing wrong" with them.
To be fair if I think if you had suffered and still suffer due to real mental disorders then you too would be annoyed by people claiming that little character traits make them Austisic or OCD or something. Still considering apparently mental illness affects 1/4 people some time in their life there's good reason to believe that most the users here are telling the truth, since far more regular people won't bother going on or posting on the thread only to say "nothing diagnosed".
Just because someone thinks they have a disorder without a professional diagnosis doesn't mean they don't have that disorder. I think I'm schizotypal. Doesn't mean I DO have it, but it doesn't mean that DON'T have it either.
I can't judge in your situation personally since I don't know you so this is only general stuff, but the whole point of a mental disorder is that it is "
generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture". In other words, it must have a serious detrimental effect on the sufferer's life, so it strikes me how many people could remain undiagnosed for a disorder which supposedly has evidently negative effects of that person's life.
Personally though I was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 9 or 10, it wasn't like it was a sudden shock or anything, even from the age of 1 or 2 my parents had realised there was something very different about me and it severely impacted my life. Now thankfully as I've grown older I've managed to overcome many of the difficulties associated with that disorder, though perhaps ironically it was just as I was overcoming that that my second more serious disorder manifested itself, which I don't want to go into details for privacy reasons but I can say it's not something minor like OCD or depression and there's no drugs or cure available. Fun. Anyway, my long and rambling point is that real mental disorders are usually very obvious in their sufferers and so I find it hard to believe that someone could really have a mental disorder if it's tolerable enough for them to never need to go to a doctor for it.
