My official report from the health professional in terms of DSM-IV
Diagnosis:
Axis 1 - Panic Disorder
Axis 2 - Aspergers Disorder
Axis 3 - No medical contributions.
Axis 4 - Moderately severe social stressors largely the reactions to him by others.
Axis 5 - Global assessment of functioning in the seventies.
In other words, apart from being symtomatic he is coping very well with his deficits.
NOTE: Global functioning is on a scale from 0 - 100 and is related to Axis 4.
I picked psychologist but I'm not actually sure. It was some sort of pediatrician.
Axis 1: Post-traumatic stress disorder.
Major depressive disorder, recurrent, moderate.
Generalized anxiety disorder.
Asperger's disorder.
Axis II: No diagnosis
Axis III: None noted
Axis IV: History of abuse
Social avoidance
Ongoing adaptive difficulties
Axis V: GAF 55. Moderate impairment in social and school functioning.
They were wrong about a few things.
First of all, I don't have GAD, but situational anxiety related to overload, unexpected events, and new situations.
Second of all, my PTSD is residual now.
Third, in assessing the GAF and axis IV, they forgot to mention that I'm unemployed.
Other than that, they're right. Except that the "social avoidance" is by preference, not due to anxiety. I actually have very little social anxiety.
Oh yeah. This particular diagnosis was done by a psychologist specializing in neurology. The original one was a psychiatric nurse-practitioner with an Aspie son, and in between those two there was a psychiatrist.
I was diagnosted by a psychological team at my elementary school. The only diagnosis I have is Asperger/Autistic, though at various times in my life, I would probably have qualified for PTSD, specific anxiety, and possibly ADHD.
Oh! I may well have qualified for OCD when I was younger too - it was way beyond my usual sort of rigidness and routines, there was definite compulsive nature to it, both thoughts and routines. That doesn't fit me anymore, though. Oh - and despression, I'm sure I would've qualified for a depressive disorder.
We had one neurological pediatrician, one pysychologist three (turtle doves) kidding three learning consultants, and the school wanted a psychiatrist (of their choosing) to put a cherry on top. (one 30 minute visit). The other visits took about 12 hours. The school wanted anxiety and OCD on his DX, but could not get the psychiatrist to do it.
Oh micgrace - Congrats on you DX!
Nice
Mine was from the BVR. Next month I "get" to do a vocational assessment... (sigh)... after which they may actually (gasp!)
help me get a job!
How can you spot one? The only way I can do it is if I catch them in a lie because something doesn't logically make sense. Can't tell lies from truth any other way.
Axis 5 - Global assessment of functioning in the seventies.
LOL I stared at this for a while trying to figure out what fuctioning in the 1970s era had to do with diagnostic critera. Ability to cope with disco and lime green leisure suits?
I get what you meant now. Sorry, I just woke up. 
Wow, if he can cope with those things, he must be functioning at a very high level indeed!
What sorts of questions (or tests) are used to rate level of functioning?
Just make sure he doesn't mistake situational, pressure-related, new-situation-related anxiety for GAD.
*grumble*
Hmm, to the best of my knowledge, my general functioning level was assessed at around
7 to 7.5 on a scale of 10 but this of course is an average.