Lol Psychiatry and Facebook

[Richter]

On the plus side, I now have trolled him into thinking that he was diagnosed with Asperger's incorrectly (which is quite possible of course). He's on IM right now like, "OMG, is my psychiatrist just using that damn book?"

Well, 

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

Hey! There are buses around here that go to

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Both of my Aspergers siblings insist on posting about mental health issues on Facebook. They're both kind of obsessed with them.

[Richter]

A diagnosis should be a suggestion, not a validation.

[KopyKat253]

They just want to feel included. you guys should really be nicer to people with aspergers. Dumb ass shrinks have been labeling these poor kids with ADHD for years!

[Suu]

They just want to feel included. you guys should really be nicer to people with aspergers. Dumb ass shrinks have been labeling these poor kids with ADHD for years!

Congrats, you just hit another fucking button with me. Keep pushing, asshole.

[KopyKat253]

They just want to feel included. you guys should really be nicer to people with aspergers. Dumb ass shrinks have been labeling these poor kids with ADHD for years!

Congrats, you just hit another fucking button with me. Keep pushing, asshole.

You should be mad at the schools who don't know how to work with aspergers kids. Its tough!

[Suu]

They should stop diagnosing kids with Aspergers and ADHD and learn to fucking parent and teach.

[KopyKat253]

wouldn't that be nice. If only they had that class in school.

[Cramulus]

A diagnosis should be a suggestion, not a validation.

They should stop diagnosing kids with Aspergers and ADHD and learn to fucking parent and teach.

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nah
perhaps they should diagnose ADHD less
(and the whole psychiatric system's handling of abnormals is still kinda barbaric IMO.. enormous progress in the last 50 years, but still a ways to go)
but some kids really do need psych attention / medication

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hmmm.

I have ADHD, and it's very different from Aspergers, though some people have both. I totally don't have Aspergers, and neither of my "Aspie" siblings have ADHD.

Yeah, schools and parents need to learn to do a better job of dealing with kids who actually are special needs, we need to stop feeding kids starchy crap and calling it food, and we need to turn off the damn TV and play outside more. Also, ADHD and Aspergers are probably overdiagnosed and misdiagnosed a little too much. But they are valid diagnoses. I know a couple of kids with Aspergers, including my son's best friend. There is no way on earth you would hang around this kid and think he was misdiagnosed.

[Golden Applesauce]

Both of my Aspergers siblings insist on posting about mental health issues on Facebook. They're both kind of obsessed with them.

Makes sense when you think about it.  A fixation on one particular subject is part of the diagnosis.

It's, like, Meta-spergers or something.

[KopyKat253]

I have a friend who has been diagnosed with ADD ADHD and Aspergers. It's particularly sad because he only saw one shrink about it and he only went once.

[Suu]

My brother is textbook ADHD, but he was also diagnosed in the late 80s  before it was just a reason for something to be wrong with your kid. It just seems to me that Aspergers is the new "something is wrong with my kid" diagnosis.

Of course there are children that do need psychiatric attention, but I don't agree with shoving drugs in your kids face at the first sign of a little hyperactivity or distraction in school, that happens to EVERYONE. Ritalin ruined my brother, and he legitimately needed it. I could only imagine the repercussions that are going to be coming around when all these kids who had Ritalin, Concerta, and Adderol shoved down their throats in such quantities that it was forced to work.

[Golden Applesauce]

One of the problems - at least with Aspergers - is that, socially, its a positively regarded diagnosis.  I suppose we could go back to the dark(er) ages when every mental illness had a serious stigma attached that was mostly based on ignorance, which would at least stop people from seeking diagnoses for self-esteem reasons.

But I think a better solution would be to popularize hypochondria.  If we got enough really cool, smart, and attractive hypochondriac movie, book, and television characters, and some kind of public self-advocacy movement (with good PR) for the disorder, people would start wanting to be hypochondriacs rather than ASD or AD[H]D.  So they'd go doctor-to-doctor until they get recognition from their disease, and tell all their friends about their new disorder - while accurately labeling themselves.

I mean, could you disagree with them?  "You're not a hypochondriac - you just think something's wrong with you."