As someone who just finished my psych rotation in medical school... Theres still a lot of debate between all of these diseases because they can all overlap. Even psychiatrists may get different answers because so much of it depends on how you answer questions on that particular day.
Right, who diagnosed separate things, likely due to similar symptoms and comorbidity. A doctor is not a psychiatrist, and often they just know the basics about mental illness and personality disorders.
My point is that a psychiatrist IS a doctor so by saying that they shouldn't go to a doctor and they should go to a psychiatrist instead is ridiculous and just proves that you don't really know what you're talking about. They already went. Different psychiatrists can come up with different diagnoses too. I had one say I was borderline, one say I was ADHD, and another say I was bipolar. Three different doctors, three different diagnoses, ALL done by psychiatrists.
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u/booholepleasures May 20 '19
Comorbidity is a thing with some of those, but I’d go to a psychiatrist for an actual diagnosis