Do you ever think that maybe a diagnosis you received may have come back to bite you?

  • @SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee
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    3524 days ago

    I’m on the autism spectrum, with very low support needs. My health care provider has that in my medical records. Now I’m worried that I’m going to disappear into some camp, and my wife will never know what happened.

  • @neilb@lemmy.ml
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    3024 days ago

    I know my wife wishes she had never been officially diagnosed with depression, as it precludes her from some jobs she wanted to apply for. How true this is is reality, I don’t know.

  • @Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world
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    1424 days ago

    I’m 50/50. On one hand it’s interesting and good to know about yourself and your issues but it is a double-ended sword. I was diagnosed with ASPD a little while back among other things and while I’m glad I understand the root for a lot of my problematic traits I now also have a piece of paper that makes me look bad if I have to go to court.

      • @sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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        724 days ago

        I guess I was thinking if I didn’t have it, which means I could eat everything without having to ask a million questions or carefully researching products/ingredients.

        If I wasn’t diagnosed but still had it, I’d be very sick and malnourished.

      • @sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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        121 days ago

        I’m not sure if I’m severe - I get a three-day migraine that is not unresponsive to medication if I eat gluten. 🤷 I was vitamin deficient and had damage to my intestines, but that’s fixed now. I have a lot of other weird food stuff going on, but am still unclear if it is even related. The biggest complication is not being able to eat out easily. And I’m that person at parties that I brings their own food.

        • @OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
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          221 days ago

          I’m so used to not eating out, eating at family gatherings. Cooking everything from scratch with salt only. Low fodmap, low sugar, low fat. I have SIBO. Liver issues, kidney failure, migraines, basically systemic issues. Can’t tolerate anything hardly at all. Top 9 allergen free. I feel like a basket case of issues with mine. So I was curious about you.

          • @sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world
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            121 days ago

            Oh! I didn’t realize it can cause other things. I have hashimotos, can’t eat soy or animal products and am dizzy sometimes when holding completely still. You are not alone - I just didn’t connect all of mine with celiac.

  • ComradeSharkfucker
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    923 days ago

    I am really glad and very priveleged to have been diagnosed with ADHD. However, I worry that my official diagnoses might put me in danger soon

  • I wish I straight up just didn’t have the things I was diagnosed with. The diagnosis themselves haven’t changed anything other than now I at least know I am not a piece of shit on purpose.

  • @azrv@sh.itjust.works
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    623 days ago

    Had a hard time figuring out life in my early 20’s. Sought help, and got a mental health diagnosis and some meds that I took for a while. 20 years later it’s clear that it was either a misdiagnosis of simple existential angst, or I figured shit out in the meantime. Paying 40% more for life insurance and need reports from the doctor I haven’t seen in 18 years each time I have to renew security clearance.

  • Didros
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    524 days ago

    …diagnosis from who?

    Myself: meh, I could be wrong, I’m not a professional.

    Doctor: hahahahaha what? What am I? Made of money?

  • @Bubberpillar@lemmy.ca
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    424 days ago

    It ain’t nothing, but fuckin eczema lol. Gotta lotion up every day and even then, sometimes you get random flare ups.

  • @phanto@lemmy.ca
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    424 days ago

    I will never be able to get a small engine private pilot license due to fainting, despite it literally never happening unless I’m standing up…

    • @a9249@lemmy.ca
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      924 days ago

      Airplanes pull G, making it far more intense than being standing. You would absolutely faint in a plane; this one is kinda fair, sorry bud.

      • @phanto@lemmy.ca
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        123 days ago

        I’ve got 10 hours in a little ultralight. Pre-diagnosis. I’m not looking to fly a jet fighter. I get more G’s in a hang glider.

    • Didros
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      224 days ago

      …I agree with this one. You fainting in a plane turns you into a missile after all.

  • @Zenith@lemm.ee
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    323 days ago

    I wish I hadn’t been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis but mostly I wish I didn’t have it

  • The Giant Korean
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    324 days ago

    It’s good to know that I was diagnosed with food allergies. I might not have ever known what was making me feel horrible all this time.

  • @NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca
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    224 days ago

    Depression 100% I have lost so much of my youth to it, and even now with my meds and lifestyle changes it still finds its way back into my life. Hell, depression is the reason why I’m 21 and still in highschool! It’s an awful condition