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Anonymous asked: what are the arguments FOR self-diagnosis? I know one girl who gave a strong argument against them but I've always self diagnosed myself with everything that I have

homojabi:

Self-diagnosis is important because it helps people who either can’t or don’t want to get a professional diagnosis. Though there are many reasons why someone might self-diagnose, and they should ALL be accepted and supported, here are some of the more common reasons why:

• because they can’t afford a professional diagnosis
  
• because self-diagnosing helps them find a community of people with similar experiences and helps them feel less alone
• because self-diagnosing makes them feel like their experiences are valid and reassures them that what they are going through is real
• because their disorder makes them too paranoid to talk to a professional
  
• because they’re afraid of psychiatric negligence or medical abuse
  
• because their disorder is heavily stigmatized and they don’t believe they’ll get the proper care for it
  
• because their disorder is heavily stigmatized and they could lose basic necessities or things like their job, housing, kids, etc.
  
• because they’re too young/a minor and might not be diagnosed with their disorder given their age 
• because their parents won’t help them, they’re living in an abusive or dependent household and/or they can’t get in to see a professional
• because they fear misdiagnosis
• because of religious beliefs
• because they just prefer it over professional diagnosis
• plus any combination of the above

Essentially, people know themselves and their brains and its processes better than professionals do. Because professionals are not objective, and are often working off of ableist stereotypes and standards, and because they have an agenda that is generally centered on perpetuating psychiatric abuse AND because they don’t have these disoders themselves AND because of stigma, underdiagnosis and misdiagnosis that is generally centered around racism and misogyny, they become very subjective. They can withhold treatment and a proper diagnosis, they can gaslight and outright lie to their patients, and they can commit hosts of ableist atrocities against their patients for as long as they see them and for no reason at all.

Professionals fear self-diagnosis because they capitalize off of telling people things about their brain that said people might already know. They want to surprise us with our diagnoses because they’re relying on our ignorance and naivety to further their abuse. Self-diagnosis allows us to end that cycle and take away this monopoly that professionals think they have on mental health. Just the fact that the DSM-5 and mental health checklists exist and are readily available online and everywhere is proof that we are enabled and allowed to discover these things for ourselves.

Going off of that, it’s perfectly normal for someone to look for the reason behind their behaviors and actions. It educates us and enables us to get the help we need, especially if we’re experiencing scary symptoms and feeling uncomfortable in our own skin for them. Living for so long without knowing why you blow up so easily or why you think certain things or feel so suicidal all the time is scary, and I talked once about being self aware and how self-diagnosis can provide reassurance and support here.

If you’d like more arguments that are pro self-diagnosis,here’s a really good post where someone picks apart the typical ableist argument against it piece by piece. Additionally, know that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with self-diagnosing for any reason, that it’s okay to self-diagnose yourself the “wrong” way and decide later that you don’t have what you previously thought you did, that it’s okay to say with certainty that you have a disorder that you’ve self-diagnosed with, that even if a professional says that you don’t have what you think you have, you 100% could still have it. It’s okay to use these tools that you have to help explain your behaviors, to figure out more about why your brain works the way it does, and to create a community of people who support you.

People who are anti self-diagnosis are strange, because a disorder doesn’t just magically come into existence once someone is professionally diagnosed. It exists often times looooong before a professional diagnosis ever comes to pass, so they’re basically saying that people who can’t or don’t want to see a professional deserve to suffer because of that. They also believe in professionals 100% without understanding that they’re not objective (for the reasons I mentioned above) and that they’re just as fallible as anyone.

Hopefully this is a good start to answering your question! The lists of benefits behind self-diagnosis are so vast that I couldn’t possibly list them all, but I hope that the few I outlined above help to validate you and anyone else who self-diagnoses.