• Is it me that finds it weird signing off her own tweets with her name, when her username is literally right there?

    It’s just a shame the (presumably US-based) healthcare system is a clusterfuck, because that bit of expensive paper with a diagnosis on it would likely open up a whole host of avenues for exploration of the condition.

    • In germany its free but you just dont get a place anywhere. Diagnosis maybe after a year, therapy never.

      And you get a blood test to see you dont use Cannabis etc, because 1+1=2

      Both have “a risk for phsychosis or shizophrenia”, so combining will obviously lead to crazy dangers. Thats the state of science they are at.

    • It’s just a shame the (presumably US-based) healthcare system is a clusterfuck,

      Laughs in disembowelled NHS…

      When the government controlling the public health service doesn’t give a shit about the actual public, especially those who it sees as “burdens”, you get more or less the same shit as if it didn’t exist at all.

      I was on a waiting list for 2 years to get an autism diagnosis, and the only way around this is to go private and pay an absolute fortune (this is of course by design - deprive the NHS of its specialists in favour of for profit private clinics).

      Want therapy? Wait at least 8 months. Honest about being suicidal? No need to wait that long, here are some cops to come and take you away…

      My point is the op is correct no matter where you are in the world, and people who insist that self diagnosis isn’t valid seriously need to check their privilege.