how can i believe my diagnosis?

Question

Acute paranoid schizophrenia
paranoid schizophrenia
schizoaffective
bi-polar
Obcessive compulsive disorder
Depression
Psychosis of the mind

I still do not believe I have the disorders above, how can I actually believe it. I dont feel like i ever will.

I lost my mind 4 years ago. I was delusional. I said I saw things. I wrote a page of jibberish. I believe that i have brief reactive psychosis with a paranoid personality type, but the psychs dont diagnose this anymore. So I guess Im on my own.

Answer 1

You will just have to trust your doctors.

Answer 2

Some of these diagnoses are mutually exclusive. (For example, Acute Paranoid Schizophrenia is the same as Paranoid Schizophrenia; Schizoaffective Disorder is the name of the condition when a person has both Bipolar Disorder or a major depression disorder and Schizophrenia). And psychosis of the mind is not in the diagnostic manual, although it may be a shorthand reference to a thought disorder.

My educated guess is that these diagnoses have been given to you at different episodes of treatment. In reality, they were the best guess of the treating professional at the time. However, they suggest that your life involves suffering quite often and you would benefit from treatment to reduce the impact of your problems.

Diagnoses are not always helpful for patients to concentrate upon. You and your loved ones already know the problems that are in your life. You, your family, your friends, and the treatment professionals should focus on solving them. If you and your team are captured by the fear of the diagnosis, you'll lose sight of the fact that real problems need real solutions.

And good luck. Life can get better as you get better at living it.

Answer 3

If you are actually serious that you have been diagnosed with all those disorders you need to get away from that doctor...and fast. If you have been given different diagnoses by several people you need to find someone who will narrow it down for you. There is just no way.

I definitely don't believe you should just 'trust in your doctor'. Doctors make horrible mistakes and they also sometimes can't be bothered with taking the time to figure out what exactly is happening- especially when it comes to a woman who has chronic problems.

Answer 4

it seems that your Dr. is listing off all the possibilities. it can take years to diagnose any or all of these disorders. Personally, I know that bipolar and depression are in the same family of disorders - meaning that being bipolar pretty much lumps you into the depression category (by definition of the disorders).

You should lookup these different diagnoses and see what you have in common with each of them and what they have in common to each other. There may be one underlying diagnosis that your Dr. is trying to get to, but not limiting other problems in the mean time. It's their way of covering all the bases.

Answer 5

How is your life right now
Family relations
Job
Social interactions
Finances
Hygeine
Living arrangements
Overal Physical health
If you have issues in any of these areas in your life that are due to your behavior then obviously there is a problem, unfortunately true mental health diagnosis are not curable and your lifetime treatment can be hard , I hope that your docs can find a medication that can stabilize you with the less side effects .And you live a happy and fulfilling life.
God Bless!

Answer 6

I have never heard of so many disorders in one person. Maybe you should see another doctor and get a second opinion.

I had a hard time accepting that I was bipolar type I and ocd. The only thing that helped was for me to research the disorders and realize that I really am that way.

Good luck!

Answer 7

Wow - that's a lot of diagnoses.

Have a talk with your doctors because I find it difficult to think ALL of the above is happening separately and all at once. It's probably more likely that your diagnosis is something like the schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder and the bi-polar and the depression are just manifestations of it.

Answer 8

It is impossible to have all of those disorders. May of them are mutually exclusive. both depression and bipolar disorder can be accompanied by periods of psychosis. Sounds like you have seen multiple doctors which could be why you have multiple diagnosis. You should stick with one doctor and let them get a more comprehensive understanding of you and your symptoms.

Answer 9

Get another opinion, if it gives you the same diagnosis, then just go with it, if its not as severe as youve put down here, then go with that doctor. Take your meds, youll feel better about things.

Answer 10

If you don't believe this doctor, get a second opinion. Maybe even a third. If all three agree, I guess you'll pretty much have to believe it.

Answer 11

You sound highly over-diagnosed. Get a second, third, fourth opinion. And no, you shouldn't just "trust your doctors." Also, do you drink and/or do drugs? Love, Jack