There’s a lot of value in going to the doctor and talking about your symptoms and how your patterns of thought and behavior are impacting your life and relationships.
Whether you “get diagnosed” or not is a secondary choice—perhaps at some point trying out medication will be attractive. Or perhaps not, but a professional diagnosis may give you more of a handle to recognize the aspects you’d like to change or overcome.
Or you may find that there are other diagnoses that are more helpful to you, which a doctor can consider and the “several people” aren’t aware of.
Or perhaps (like me), your doctor will say “yeah, you can have a diagnosis if you like, and I’ll work with you to find the right meds which help, or you can not worry about labels and we’ll just find techniques that can mitigate some of the habits and effects of your individual situation, whatever the reason.”
There’s a lot of value in going to the doctor and talking about your symptoms and how your patterns of thought and behavior are impacting your life and relationships.
Whether you “get diagnosed” or not is a secondary choice—perhaps at some point trying out medication will be attractive. Or perhaps not, but a professional diagnosis may give you more of a handle to recognize the aspects you’d like to change or overcome.
Or you may find that there are other diagnoses that are more helpful to you, which a doctor can consider and the “several people” aren’t aware of.
Or perhaps (like me), your doctor will say “yeah, you can have a diagnosis if you like, and I’ll work with you to find the right meds which help, or you can not worry about labels and we’ll just find techniques that can mitigate some of the habits and effects of your individual situation, whatever the reason.”