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[-] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you high? Self-diagnoses leads to an incredible amount of poor choices, and your condoning, much less outright championing that bullshit is disgustingly irresponsible. Do better. Be better. Next time.

[-] ZagTheRaccoon@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah I'm championing it. I've spent decades in this system and worked with people who do the diagnosing. Your position of reverence for the process of diagnosis or the authority of those doing diagnosis is not well founded. People who are too poor to get diagnosed are still needing help regardless of wheather an academic has weighted in on the subject. Diagnosis is an opinion, to get insurance to pay for healthcare. That's all it is. I can recommend you some books on the subject if you actually care to learn more about the topic of how diagnosis actually works.

[-] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, their intention was to be shitty by asking if you were high because the average person is by no means qualified to self diagnose.

Insisting that it's a good idea to ignore people who spent their entire higher education and their entire career studying and treating those issues is exactly the same bullshit antivaxers try to pull and it's dangerously irresponsible.

Mental health is obviously not an exact science; it can't be. There are far too many variables. But, humans are very good at pattern recognition, and someone who has successfully treated dozens of patients with your exact symptoms is much more likely to get it right than some rando using WebMD.