04-30-2007, 01:43 PM
Hi,
I'm having some problems with getting a diagnosis going. I'm on the medical database thing as having depression and anxiety, and I've been prescribed meds readily, on two seperate occasions, for this. But after talking to a few people involved in a radical mental health group, as well as a fellow aspie, I decided that I wanted a diagnosis much much more than I wanted medication. I wanted to know what was wrong, and I had a pretty good idea, I just wanted clarification, I guess. So I went to see my GP, but he was closed, which made me upset, so I ended up changing to the university student medical practice. It took me a while to get to see a doctor, but when I did, he wouldnt tell me a thing. I couldnt be as insistant as I'd planned, I was so nervous I dont think I looked at him once, I have no idea what he looked like. He said that he was confident I could be screened and diagnosed, but that he didnt want to do that, because it might be bad for me.
Now I have an appointment in like 3 weeks time with this man, and between then and now I should be starting my counselling (run by MIND and BUPA, really really nice) so I dont need him to help me with anything, or chat to him about anything, I just want a diagnosis from him.
So I dunno what to do. If I go in there all guns blazing demanding a diagnosis, I think he'll probably just say no and either prescribe me something or make me fill in a form or something like that.
I'm also curious to know because I'm on Jobseeker's Allowance, but that runs out before September, which is when I go back to college and recieve EMA, so I'm going to be broke over at least half of summer apparently, but a dx would change all my benefit situation, and it would be nice to not be broke.
Any advice?
Dee
xxxxx
I'm having some problems with getting a diagnosis going. I'm on the medical database thing as having depression and anxiety, and I've been prescribed meds readily, on two seperate occasions, for this. But after talking to a few people involved in a radical mental health group, as well as a fellow aspie, I decided that I wanted a diagnosis much much more than I wanted medication. I wanted to know what was wrong, and I had a pretty good idea, I just wanted clarification, I guess. So I went to see my GP, but he was closed, which made me upset, so I ended up changing to the university student medical practice. It took me a while to get to see a doctor, but when I did, he wouldnt tell me a thing. I couldnt be as insistant as I'd planned, I was so nervous I dont think I looked at him once, I have no idea what he looked like. He said that he was confident I could be screened and diagnosed, but that he didnt want to do that, because it might be bad for me.
Now I have an appointment in like 3 weeks time with this man, and between then and now I should be starting my counselling (run by MIND and BUPA, really really nice) so I dont need him to help me with anything, or chat to him about anything, I just want a diagnosis from him.
So I dunno what to do. If I go in there all guns blazing demanding a diagnosis, I think he'll probably just say no and either prescribe me something or make me fill in a form or something like that.
I'm also curious to know because I'm on Jobseeker's Allowance, but that runs out before September, which is when I go back to college and recieve EMA, so I'm going to be broke over at least half of summer apparently, but a dx would change all my benefit situation, and it would be nice to not be broke.
Any advice?
Dee
xxxxx
