I talked with my doctor today, and here are the diagnoses I already knew I had:
Generalized anxiety, panic disorder
Clinical depression
Dyspraxia
psychosomatic/stress pain
Now, she's added:
hypersomnia, parasomnia (likely related. She says if I am not really sleeping when I'm asleep, it would explain why I sleep in excess)
ADD
I have the anxiety and depression under control after six months of therapy and meds, and for the fine motor dyspraxia, I'm taking ceramics, and calligraphy in college, and I've taken up knitting. The goal in these being if I work my hand muscles in new and complex ways, I'll force them to comply with simple things like writing legibly or buttons. XP
It's the others I'm not entirely sure how I deal with, so I was wondering if anybody here has experience with any of these disorders.
Note: To avoid fratching, I know these are a lot of diagnoses. I trust my doctor, even after getting screwed over as a kid by the psychiatric industry. She's always been careful to look at solutions instead of band-aids. All of these diagnoses make sense--the parasomnia, for example, is a list of things I always knew I did growing up, like sleepwalk, sleep-talk, toss and turn so violently I literally move my mattress, and the ADD kinda runs in my family.
So let's not discuss the validity of her approach to me, or whether or not I actually have these. Thank you.
Generalized anxiety, panic disorder
Clinical depression
Dyspraxia
psychosomatic/stress pain
Now, she's added:
hypersomnia, parasomnia (likely related. She says if I am not really sleeping when I'm asleep, it would explain why I sleep in excess)
ADD
I have the anxiety and depression under control after six months of therapy and meds, and for the fine motor dyspraxia, I'm taking ceramics, and calligraphy in college, and I've taken up knitting. The goal in these being if I work my hand muscles in new and complex ways, I'll force them to comply with simple things like writing legibly or buttons. XP
It's the others I'm not entirely sure how I deal with, so I was wondering if anybody here has experience with any of these disorders.
Note: To avoid fratching, I know these are a lot of diagnoses. I trust my doctor, even after getting screwed over as a kid by the psychiatric industry. She's always been careful to look at solutions instead of band-aids. All of these diagnoses make sense--the parasomnia, for example, is a list of things I always knew I did growing up, like sleepwalk, sleep-talk, toss and turn so violently I literally move my mattress, and the ADD kinda runs in my family.
So let's not discuss the validity of her approach to me, or whether or not I actually have these. Thank you.
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