Diagnosis process
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:16 pm
I'm so confused about diagnoses at the moment. I don't know how helpful I think diagnoses are anyway - when the professionals starting assessing me for/talking about BPD it was both helpful and not. Helpful because it made me feel marginally less crazy for some of my behaviours, but not because what does any of this matter?
But I'm confused about whether I am diagnosed. I'm always dipping in and out of systems because of moving around anyway. Then they started talking about formally diagnosing in March and then COVID hit, so any thoughts about long-term help were cancelled.
My new GP called and she asked about whether I'd been formally diagnosed - I said that I wasn't but something had been thrown around, at which point she asked if it was a personality disorder, so I said yes... So there's clearly something on my record, but I don't know what. I know NICE guidelines say that for BPD you should be assessed for a psych for 6 months? I'd quite like to access my medical records at some point to see what they're saying about me. (I could access through work but could be fired so really holding back on that).
I know the NHS can be quite reluctant to diagnose, so I guess I'm asking - at what point are you diagnosed? And is it even useful/does it matter? It's just bothering me!
But I'm confused about whether I am diagnosed. I'm always dipping in and out of systems because of moving around anyway. Then they started talking about formally diagnosing in March and then COVID hit, so any thoughts about long-term help were cancelled.
My new GP called and she asked about whether I'd been formally diagnosed - I said that I wasn't but something had been thrown around, at which point she asked if it was a personality disorder, so I said yes... So there's clearly something on my record, but I don't know what. I know NICE guidelines say that for BPD you should be assessed for a psych for 6 months? I'd quite like to access my medical records at some point to see what they're saying about me. (I could access through work but could be fired so really holding back on that).
I know the NHS can be quite reluctant to diagnose, so I guess I'm asking - at what point are you diagnosed? And is it even useful/does it matter? It's just bothering me!