Diagnosed today. But it was underwhelming.

[Iamnotarabot]

Well I went to the psychiatrist and I thought he would use his super psychiatrist power to found out the part of my brain that doesnt work properly ( Sylar style if you know what I mean).

But no no no! He just trusted the psychologist he works with ( well thats positive ) and asked me questions related to my past and how it might be related to ASD then he gave me the paper.

The end.

Well I thought some other stuff would happen but no, ok.

And he also told me I should go another specialist for ADHD to know how much I have it, and he also adived me to try some med for depression /ADHD

There is another step left, the one where you do a big file and send it to the public health care system in order to get a card acknowledging your super power , but, im not sure about that, maybe i'll do something about it, I mean It could be helpfull later in life? As long as I am not forced to say to people that I am autistic.

Ho And now I can attend to support group aswell , I should give it a try. What do you think?

Well it was just a post where I wanted to hight five you all and ask you how you fell about meds and support group?

Have a nice day

 

[Shamar]

Ho And now I can attend to support group aswell , I should give it a try. What do you think?

Well it was just a post where I wanted to hight five you all and ask you how you fell about meds and support group?

Have a nice day

I have tried support and therapy groups, and they seem to boil down to a mixture of two things: insincere "Aww, that's too bad, I feel sorry for you," and "Let me talk, my problem is more important than your problem!" I never really got anything out of them, but give it a try. Your results may be better, but don't expect much.

As for meds, make sure the doctor explains what they are supposed to do, why you need them, and what the side effects are. If you don't like the answers, don't take them. Unless you are institutionalized and incapable of deciding, you are NOT required to use any prescription. Sometimes they seem to have the opposite effect, so if you are having any adverse effects, stop taking them.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Yes this psychatrist explained me what it was how it is supposed to work and what some sides effect might be.
My best friend ( also doctor) told me that I should take something for a short period of time.

I dont know yet, I may try, Not sur yet.

It was a huge mental effort to free myself from all my fears about getting a diagnosis , about the med, its stuck between the fear of getting numb down by meds , the fear of being forced to take them when ll get used to it, its complicated.

 

[Illumination]

I wouldn't be too fond of "support groups", while I have never been to one, and do not plan to join one in the foreseeable future. -- I would assume the same laws as usual would apply as stated by @Shamar filled with empty apologies (Why would they apologize to begin with?) and concern with their problems over others.

In regards to medication, I wouldn't use medication myself, as I wouldn't want to influence who I am in that temporary and artificial way, in-fact I do not take medications for anything. This is mostly because I do not commonly get sick, and I cannot tolerate to swallow pills (the only time I did I threw up). -- On the odd chance that I do it's usually one specific liquid medicine.

-- If you do decide to use medicine make sure to know all the "benefits" and "negatives" from it before-hand.

 

[Starfire]

Your experience sounds very similar to mine. I don’t know what I was expecting, perhaps the clouds to part to the sound of celestial trumpets, but that didn’t happen it was all very matter of fact. I went with my mother and when we left the building she more or less said well that’s that done, so what are you doing for the rest of the day? When I got home and told my wife she more or less said ok, well I’ve got things to do we can talk later then she avoided it, it was a very strange and confusing conclusion for me.

My doctor tried to get me on SSRI’s which I refused and I refused a support group too. I don’t want to change my routine to sit with strangers and talk. I don’t much like talking and especially to strangers.

I’ve noticed my doctor now will always try to fob me off by referring me back to the diagnostic team if I ever present with anything other than physical ailments. Broken leg is fine that’s his department, If it’s trouble sleeping, depression etc, etc he says I’ll refer you back to the diagnostic team, which is pointless. I think my GP thinks I have been given a diagnosis from NASA saying not from this planet, not a fairly straightforward ASD diagnosis.

 

[Bolletje]

Were you expecting confetti cannons and a marching band?

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Your experience sounds very similar to mine. I don’t know what I was expecting, perhaps the clouds to part to the sound of celestial trumpets, but that didn’t happen it was all very matter of fact. I went with my mother and when we left the building she more or less said well that’s that done, so what are you doing for the rest of the day? When I got home and told my wife she more or less said ok, well I’ve got things to do we can talk later then she avoided it, it was a very strange and confusing conclusion for me.

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I was alone but yeah it was like a "normal" thing.
Btw the psychiatrist I went too is a very nice once , at the end he told me to not take it to deep and that I am not some kind of alien. That was nice.

Were you expecting confetti cannons and a marching band?

Yeah something like that xD , I mean, I wanted that to maybe have more solemnity but I guess that the moment that actually changed my perception of my life and realy was a turning point was when I discovered that online.

The psychatrist told me that I should try med for adhd , but before he told me I should see a specialist on adhd that works with him in order to know how much I suffer from ADHD , and about the depression part when It has its up and down and im definitly on a higher note at the moment but I should contact him when things change ( possibly around november)