Misdiagnosed with Asperger's and ADHD...

When I was 11 years of age I was a little brat. I got really angry and my parents used always fight and at times my mom would rent a room for a week to get away from my dad. Anyway it made me traumatized and I became isolated from society. Because of this, a man up in Dublin diagnosed me with Asperger's and ADHD. He never gave me medication for either of these. I always tought it was a misdiagnosis. When my parents divorced and the fighting stopped, I started to act more normal. I always had friends in school and had many relationships and have good eye contact. Basically I just didn't meet the critea of Asperger's nor ADHD. Here I am now, aged 19 living in Scotland wondering 'I don't even have the thing! It's just a false label!' So then I went to a Psychologist and got assessed, he immediately knew about my ADHD and Asperger's even before I disclosed them to him. He had a record of some sort from the guy who originally diagnosed me. He also knew I have never taken meds. And by heart he knew I did not have either of the conditions, but I know he just didn't want to disagree with the other doctor. Some of the things in the meeting he said to me were like, "You have good eye contact, you are well spoken" and etc. He still didn't un-diagnose me.

Anyway I want to get undiagnosed because it really is a label doing me no good. I am not on SSI for it and never needed help. This label is on my medical records and they are not confidential when I sign a medical release waiver! Meaning the British army asks for permission to see medical records, If I Don't sign it I won't get the job. So basically, I know I'm misdiagnosed, if I successfully get a second opinion, will that opinion overwrite the old one stating Asperger's on my med records?


Thanks in advance, Declan.

It is a sham that these soft diagnoses (frequently misdiagnoses) can haunt a persons future career. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 103342.htm http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20576306/ns/h ... diagnosed/

I have noticed that you mates comprise a relative large percentage of persons on these psych boards and am wondering if maybe there is an epidemic of overdiagnosis of mental conditions going on your side of the pond. Perhaps you have too many mental health professionals, or perhaps the laws and regulations require too much diagnosis before any treatment can be provided. Perhaps there is another entirely different explanation.

Here is what you need to look at. In the states we have HIPAA, laws and regulations regarding physical and mental health records. There is a provision and procedure in our laws for getting erroneous information amended. I suspect you have something similar in England. Just google whatever the name of your medical records act (HIPAA for US) plus amend plus misdiagnosis.

I am also in the states and you have the choice of not signing a release to a new doctor to get information from an old doctor. So, basically you can start up with a new doctor, never mention that you have that diagnosis and then no one knows . HIPPA protects that. So as TA suggested, I would look into that.

Another route you could go (at least in the US) is to get a neuropsychological test to verify and retest for a more accurate diagnosis.

Cheze2 wrote:I am also in the states and you have the choice of not signing a release to a new doctor to get information from an old doctor. So, basically you can start up with a new doctor, never mention that you have that diagnosis and then no one knows . HIPPA protects that. So as TA suggested, I would look into that.

Another route you could go (at least in the US) is to get a neuropsychological test to verify and retest for a more accurate diagnosis.

Ohh take my word for it they still get info from old doctor whether you sign a realease or not. They are just as dirty and corrupted as lawyers.

T.A. Anderson wrote:It is a sham that these soft diagnoses (frequently misdiagnoses) can haunt a persons future career. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 103342.htm http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20576306/ns/h ... diagnosed/

I have noticed that you mates comprise a relative large percentage of persons on these psych boards and am wondering if maybe there is an epidemic of overdiagnosis of mental conditions going on your side of the pond. Perhaps you have too many mental health professionals, or perhaps the laws and regulations require too much diagnosis before any treatment can be provided. Perhaps there is another entirely different explanation.

Here is what you need to look at. In the states we have HIPAA, laws and regulations regarding physical and mental health records. There is a provision and procedure in our laws for getting erroneous information amended. I suspect you have something similar in England. Just google whatever the name of your medical records act (HIPAA for US) plus amend plus misdiagnosis.

IMO ADHD is profoundly over diagnosed and misdiagnosed. ADHD has become the newest catch all disorder for any kid that need a label just for the sake of it. ADHD meds are a huge money maker in the states, and docs love to doll it out. The biggest accessory to the crime are schools that are not equipped to handle todays kids. 40 kids packed in a room with 1 teacher throwing common core around with limited physical activities. Kids get bored and mis behave. Discipline is something none existent today. Only thing the teacher can do is recommend a test for ADHD or ADD by a "proffesional"

First thing "professional" does is prescribe medication. "Professional" may also do "professional testing", rigging the answers and changing/flashing approving/disproving body language until the child answers to what the psych wants to appear on the tests. Tests then cover the "professionals" arse, proving the ADHD diagnosis is indeed "valid" and believable.

Child along with his friends then all take legalized methamphetamine, changing the chemistry of the brain grooming it into iatrogenic drug addiction. Childhood prescription psychotropics lead to drug addiction latter in life.

Psychiatrists, if ever challenged down the road why some of these kids are ragging drug addicts as adults, just pull off the famous results justify the cause: "well obviously these kids were born with a chemical imbalance, it was for this reason why they were brought in for diagnosis and latter psychotropic treatment in the first place. Otherwise we never would have seen them if they were born normal. They later in life made the choice on their own to discontinue psychotropic treatment against our professional advice that corrected this chemical imbalance and thus as a a result their symptoms came back. Unfortunately they made the poor choice on their of using harmful street drugs to self mediate this imbalance." That is the lie to cover the damaged the drugs did in the first place. Big pharma forks millions into studies to validate this false claim made by the psychiatric community.

And OP whats happened to you is called gaslighting. I know cause it happened to me too, to this day after 10 years the "genius" shrinks still don't know what to label me. My last inpatient stay they lied and exaggerated on my report. Saying I "hear command voices" that is a total lie, I told them that sometimes when I get really stoned I hear people talking about me but they are no command voices, I know what command voices are and those are not them. Heck I could hardly understand what they are saying let alone them giving me commands!!

They do that to exaggerate your "illness" these people are evil scum that need to be exterminated.

All I can tell you is that I know nothing is wrong with me, the friggen shrinks and my own family don't know what I went through, they don't know what I was doing 10 years ago and who I associated with. My "delusions of persecution" are true maybe not all of them but the main ones yes, and the rabbit hole goes deep and Id rather not talk about it. All im going to do is leave this satanic shithole of a country and go somewhere these demons cant find me.