Posted by shawna on March 24, 2003, at 7:56:31
In reply to How many mental illnesses can 1 person have, posted by WorryGirl on March 18, 2003, at 18:17:09
> I recently finally went to see a psychologist (instead of the therapist I saw briefly last fall and summer). I don't know if they are just trying to make money off me or if I'm sicker than even I imagined, but my husband is so freaked out that for the first time in our marriage I really worry. I took some personality tests, and gave him (the psychologist) a brief history of my past.
> I have (no significance to the order and nothing has been 100% confirmed yet - I haven't gone back yet either) 1-social anxiety disorder, 2-bulimia, 3-bipolar, 4-paranoia, 5-obsessive compulsive disorder, 6-problems with co-dependency, and 7-low self-esteem, 8-some postpartum depression, 9-PMDD, 10-avoidant personality. No wonder I feel like such a loser and freak. No wonder people read strange vibes from me and back off. I know I need help. I'm just so embarrassed and ashamed. I'm afraid to tell my parents. It's hard to believe but they think I'm fine and wouldn't even guess how *ucked up I am! I've been so depressed lately I haven't even read this board for a month or two. Understandably, my husband hasn't taken this too well. He has already had enough from me. Miraculously, my two little girls seem unscathed. I have tried so hard to not get upset around them.
> How could I have gotten by all this time seemingly OK? Why has everything crumbled since my two daughters were born? The bad things that have happened to me all occurred up until around age 25. I'm 36. Why now when it looked like everything was finally under control? How come I didn't freak out then? I know the psychologist should answer that but I'm terrified to go back. It's like it's going to really confirm how messed up I am.what is a belimia test?--this i have never heatd of.
the fact that you take so good care of your two girls that they have been unscathed, as a mother i can tell you this would rule out social anxiety disorder, maybe social anxiety but not as a disorder.
also true bipolar , obsessive compulsive and true parinoia.
a man would berate me for stating this but as a mother i know what it takes to raise children, what all they and we go thru, what they pick up without our knowing emotionally etc...so i state the previous in all sincerity.
these test by their very nature are made to be "sensitive"
you may have normal concerns such as if a question was on a test and it asked are you suspicious of people, you put yes, and in real life you work for an investigative agency or your husband has cheated on you then this question in relation to your life should not flag parinoia, but because this is a battery that is given to a whole populus and has not been tailored to you...it will! they try to weed these indescrepencies out by supplimenting other questions on down the list to prclude or exclude but on the borderline cases this does not work...that is why these tests are only a suppotive means for the doctor to use in his diognosis and not the diagnosis itself although i have seen some lazy doctor syndrome for which this has been done and taken as gospel.
at any rate do not worry to much as these tests do not prclude in themselves a pathological condition.
the fact that you were given the illness names, that you could have ,presumtiousely tells me that i would definetely seek another doctor as that is bad medicine number one and that he may be using these test as a diagnosic instead of a means of retreaving information to help make a diagnosis upon further doctor patient investigation.
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