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What other disorder might I have?
I have depersonatization disorder; I know because I feel unreal and zone out so bad that I come back and have to remember things to feel less detached at the moment, I have anxiety...Anyhow, I don't think this is it because I get very depressed,I used to think of suicide, at times I act differently and I'm not trying to fit it (I don't think). I argue at times and just have to be right and have to win the argument (big problem),I think of hurting people, myself, and just dark thoughts. I sometimes find physical contact uncomfortable, I have sexual thoughts but I can't "turn on" at the right time. I also sometimes say things that really don't apply to the conversation...does anyone might have like an idea of what's wrong with me? What is wrong with meee! these feelings are helpless!
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I have a daughter who starting looking up medical symptoms on line, for all sorts of diseases to try to self diagnose a condition she had. What she discovered and what I discovered when i did the same thing for someone I knew who had an untreated mentall illness, is that a great majority of the symptoms were all the same. Only a doctor can run certain tests and spend time with you in an exam to determine what is really going one and it may have to take time. You say you know one disorder you have and wonder if there are others. How do you know about the one? Have you seen a doctor? If still seeing him, ask him. If the Dr. wasn't helping, it can be a personality clash, you need to really connect with the person trying to heal you and trust him. So if you havent had luck with one, try another Dr. If under age, let the parents know you want to try another Dr. cus this one is not helping you and its not lack of their knowledge, you just don't click with them which is important when dealing with what your issues are. Good luck dear.
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You need to have a doctor diagnose you. Well, firstly because they can tell you exactly what you have and obviously can help you with those problems.
We aren't doctors. I don't think people should self-diagnose themselves, because half the time, they are wrong.
So I can take random guesses of what you can have, but we all could be wrong.
I think you should see a doctor, tell them what you've been feeling and they can help you from there. It's better to go into the doctors without any ideas in your head of what you might have. It'll be better for you.
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I answered you first question to us on this. In my answer I gave you a link to the Cleveland Clinic which I believe I mistakenly said was the Mayo Clinic. I apologize for that but they are both excellent clinics. In that link the article answers all of your questions.
As the article suggests, there is no known cure for depersonalization disorder. What they do is treat the symptoms and it is believed that since this disorder is one that affects mostly people of your age, with time by treating the symptoms the disorder itself will go away.
If I remember correctly you have not be properly diagnosed. I believe you wrote your mother passed it off as some type of phase or you were just acting up. Thirty years ago the doctors would have agreed with her. Today most doctors know better.
In my last answer I said you needed to see a psychiatrist, which probably scared you. No your not crazy. One of the symptoms of this illness is clinical depression. Clinical depression is actually a medical illness similar to diabetes in that it is an insufficient amount of 1 or 2 hormones are not secreted in enough quantity to ward off depression. Unlike diabetes clinical depression is curable through medication and possibly some talk therapy to identify and help you deal with the stressors causing the depression and anxiety attacks you are having.
Since these two hormones happen to secrete into the brain doctors feel that a board certified psychiatrist is best trained to prescribe and treat clinical depression. A family doctor could treat this illness if they wanted to by prescribing medication. The problem is they do not get the training in the pharmacology of the different drugs available to treat clinical depression.
Meaning family doctors are not fully up on how these different drugs work and different people might react to them. Board Certified Psychiatrists are medical doctors who spend an additional year in what is called a fellowship and then is tested to receive board certification in psychiatry as well as general medicine making the psychiatrist the better doctor to treat this illness.
Once again my recommendation is to see your doctor for a full physical. You probably need one for back to school anyway. While you're with the doctor tell the doctor of what you have written to us. The complete physical is need to rule out any other organic problems. Then you should be referred to a Board Certified Psychiatrist fro diagnoses and treatment.
You mentioned here that you think of hurting yourself, others and that you are having dark thoughts. If you are having these thoughts then you need to call 911 and get help now before those dark thoughts have you acting on them. You do not need parental permission to call 911.
Having dark thoughts, thoughts of hurting others or yourself is reason to call for help. No one will hurt you but they will see to it that you are taken to the hospital emergency room where doctors can offer you the medical help you need
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