#ajskflglh feels like I'm posting more rants than usual these days. sorry i have a lot of rage -

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anti self diagnosis discourse (abt mental illnesses, idk physical stuff) still blows my mind, esp coming from ppl who live in countries where you can't get psychiatric medicines without prescription, bc like i genuinely do not see the harm in it at all. ig there's the whole pathologizing aspect i see ppl talk about but like that can (and often does) happen if you have an official diagnosis as well so does it really count. teens diagnosing themselves with serious mental illnesses 1 aren't always wrong 2 if they /are/ wrong, they often do this bc they have some other serious problem that's worth looking into anyway (except it's often brushed off as "everyone has anxiety" and stuff like that, which is why they lean into the less common disorders in the first place), but using a label of some personality disorder isn't gonna negate that somehow if they have someone looking out for them. even adults who self-dx, like, likely do it bc they have no way to get an official diagnosis, and again it's not like latching onto a label for now particularly harms them (if it does, the problem is not the label itself. like if they do bad shit to others, then instead of excusing it with "i do that bc i have x disorder" they'll just say "i do that bc that's who i am/that's how i was born" or shit like that, lbr. what I'm saying is the issue isn't the seld-dxing here but the behavior itself that could exist even without it/with an official diagnosis just the same)

and yeah i mean all this even if the person in question DOES have the means to get an official diagnosis, bc that shit is still difficult and scary, and if you're a woman or a person of color or lgbt (esp trans) or even just fat you're already gonna have a hard time getting one (or getting an *accurate* one, at least) anyway bc medical officials and esp psychiatric ones seem to dismiss or mishandle those groups in particular

like. from my own personal experience here. getting an official diagnosis that later ended up being wrong hurt me way more in the long run than self diagnosing with something and being wrong ever could (also, i self-dxed and ended up being right, too, so like maybe we can trust people to know what they're talking about when it comes to their own psyche and consider that maybe they can do their research about mental illness just fine)

#ironically the thing i bring up in that last paragraph is smth that started with me self diagnosing #and then getting an official diagnosis for what i suspected. but then being in a mental ward and the doctors there insisting - #- that diagnosis was wrong and so giving me treatment for a different disorder instead. which def screwed me in the long run #not medically thankfully but definitely mentally. I'm still suffering bc of their bullshit 8 years(!!!!) later #so yeah can we please trust people to understand their own brains the best. thank you #ajskflglh feels like I'm posting more rants than usual these days. sorry i have a lot of rage - #- and expressing it over topics that won't get me death threats for expressing is a safe way for me to let it out i think.