magpie
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I wonder how common over-diagnosing mental illness is. After all, no one is going to feel good 100% of the time. I'll find that in some of the things I post online, laypeople tend to jump to a diagnosis like depression or whatever, but that isn't necessarily me. I don't really have problems functioning in society, so I don't see myself as having any sort of clinical disorder. Does it do more harm than good to over-diagnose? Is it better to over-diagnose than under-diagnose? Etc. I'm no psychologist, so I can't say much on the matter.
Either way, I don't want to say that I'm glad you have PTSD, but I'm glad that you eventually figured out what it is if that makes sense.
Thanks! It makes sense.
I can't speak for everyone, but for me overdiagnosing definitely did more harm than good. Probably because I felt like there was something severely wrong with me and I was confused about why, when I brought up past things, therapists didn't want to talk about it or would defend the things that happened. So eventually I just figured nothing worth conversation had happened and that the problem was me.
The hardest diagnosis to deal with was borderline personality disorder. My therapist thinks I was given that one because I self harmed and tried to kill myself a lot. But I was treated as a manipulator and a liar after I was given that diagnosis, so I think part of the issue was that mental health workers simply didn't believe me when I brought up past things (because of what they diagnosed me with).