AutisticPsychopath wrote:As far I know there isn't any difference between a professions diagnosis and an individuals self-diagnosis. I don't think there is any official registry, special membership card you get, or anything that makes the doctors diagnosis official.
Yes there is - a medical degree is accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and grants you a swathe of legal rights that you don't have. Try and get yourself prescription medicine based on your self-diagnosis and you'll soon find out that your personal diagnosis has no legal standing.
AutisticPsychopath wrote:Also, there is no information that a psychologist would have that I wouldn't already have access to on my own.
This is true of physics too, yet if you tried to build a space ship you'd not be able to. It might technically be "out there" where you can read it, but you don't comprehend it at all because you're lacking 6 years of scientifically rigorous medical training.
AutisticPsychopath wrote:They don't have any hidden secrets, all the information is public and I have done lots of research into psychological conditions so I am confident I would identify the correct condition.
Confidence born of ignorance.
AutisticPsychopath wrote:You seem silly, thinking that just because they are a professional they are superior to you. Do you know how often it is that someone will go and get a diagnosis, and then go a new psychologist to receive a completely different diagnosis? Psychologists are useless and only serve a purpose for uneducated people with poor self-awareness.
Firstly, a psychologist can't diagnose you; a psychiatrist is still required. Secondly, the practical reality of your situation is the only meaningful indicator of how useful you are as a physician - I've seen a psychiatrist, who gave me a referrral to a cognitive behavioural expert who helped me eliminate all symptoms of my condition, and I'm now very successful. You've enjoyed...well shall we merely leave it at "much less" success taking your own medical advice.
AutisticPsychopath wrote:I am concerned that you mentioned seeing a psychiatrist. Do you not know that they only give out drugs? Psychiatry is a scam so I suggest you do some research into it. They won't cure you and just want to get you addicted to drugs and make you a life long customer.
I did see a psychiatrist, who never prescribed me a single drug. In fact the first thing he did was refer me to a psychologist, who has no capacity to prescribe drugs. I don't know at what point during their medical training you believe psychologists have a mind-control chip placed into them that removed all of their humanity and ability to make moral choices and allows a drug company sales rep to remotely control their body, but I'd contend this never happens. What's more, your comprehension of psychiatry is rooted in American bias - I live in the UK, where we don't pay for medicines we need to be well, so your claim that psychiatrists are merely puppets of the drugs trade doesn't have any meaning here because they wouldn't profit from doing that.
AutisticPsychopath wrote:Please don't tell me that you are taking drugs because you have Aspergers and saw a psychiatrist... I would never see a psychiatrist, can't imagine the benefit.
I have never been medicated, but I did recieve a huge amount of psychological help. As I mentioned, my psychiatrist carried out the necessary neurological tests to establish symptoms of asperger's syndrome and then immediately referred me to a psychologist for cognitive behavioural therapy, the end result of which was me returning to normal functioning without the use of drugs.