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by doubled112 219 days ago
> diagnosed with it by a professional

Honestly, I wouldn't be sure how to answer some of the questions.

In a 15 minute doctor's appointment I was "diagnosed" and medicated for bipolar. In another 15 minute appointment with a psychiatrist, we added OCD and general anxiety as well.

We stopped medications shortly after and it has been 20 years.

There has been a lot of discussion about self diagnosis, but I have the opposite problem. How can you decide a diagnosis with 10 questions and some pills?

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Modern medicine has no incentive to diagnose you. Their incentives are to get you in and out as quickly as possible, get you on a recurring prescription, and schedule the next followup visit. And to do this for as many people as possible. As long as they don't accidentally kill you, they profit.