ilmachia:

sombers: i went to the psychiatrist today, looking to get a professional diagnosis for bpd. when i told her that i think i have bpd she said “oh good! its really hard to diagnose people with things when they have no idea what they might have.” she also said that if i think i have bpd, then i probably have bpd. its that simple. she even told me to do my own research and come to my own conclusions and then bring back what ive put together. so everyone that has said that my self diagnosis was stupid or wrong, eat my entire ass. This is as irresponsible as a doctor continually prescribing an ungodly amount of xanax without having seen someone for years and yes that actually fucking happened. Medical professionals aren’t even allowed to diagnose themselves. And if reading about the illness and thinking you have it means you actually have it, then every damn medical student or abnormal psych student has every goddamn illness in the book. Because that’s what we do in an age of cyberchondria. My abnormal psych prof told us that we’re going to read about these disorders and think we have everyone and that that’s completely normal.

your experience is not everyone else’s and to negate this persons personal experiences on what they have lived with is just plain wrong

being diagnosed with a mental illness is as easy as checking boxes it’s not an exact science and no one knows yourself better than you

if you read about every mental illness and think you have it then maybe thats a mental illness in itself but to say “I hate the internet I’m gonna kill myself” when someone describes what a professional (which you seem to be so worried about) told them

maybe idk figure yourself out instead of worrying about other people

just because YOU had a bad experience with being prescribed an addictive substance doesn’t mean that’s what’ll happen to everyone else

and @ op your experience is valid and your diagnosis is valid if you believe you have bpd then it’s exactly as your doctor said “you probably do”