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A viewer #39;s 3 questions (Part 1)
"Answer me these questions three . . . " Q: Have you been diagnosed? A: I have been misdiagnosed. I #39;ve had to carefully self-diagnose, which doctors frown upon. Due to a history of anxiety, I have trust issues; so, after trusting people who couldn #39;t help me I decided to inform and help myself. At age: 11 or 12 (can #39;t remember exactly), Diagnosis from a counselor /therapist: Depression -- the unipolar kind At age: 26, Diagnosis from a psychiatrist who spoke with me 2 or 3 times in 72 hours: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD -- not BD which is Bipolar Disorder) At age: 27, I read my BPD diagnosis and then I learned about it- realizing it was wrong. I then learned about Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD) and self-diagnosed myself as having developed AvPD as a result of dealing with my mental health issues on my own, to help myself cope with the stress (by avoiding pretty much anything else in my life that I wasn #39;t compelled to deal with if avoidance meant a reduction in my stress load). At age: 30, I self-diagnosed with symptoms matching affective disorder (aka mood disorder) with a likelihood that it could be Schizoaffective Disorder; I #39;m not sure if a doctor would match my history of symptoms to Bipolar I, Bipolar II, Cyclothymia, etc. It #39;s my perspective and opinion that "Bipolar Disorder with Psychotic Features" is likely the diagnosis that matches the symptoms I #39;ve experienced. I have the phenotype to match diagnostic criteria, but I #39;m unsure how I would match ...

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  1. Biochemistry
  2. A viewer’s 3 questions (Part