[Redway]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

I think i am wary of genuine diagnosed issues with the brain and self-diagnosed umbrella terms that social media can latch onto and legitimise.

Some conditions, like misophonia (like I said in the other thread), have to be self-diagnosed because official diagnostic books haven’t caught up with their condition but yeah. Yeah. People who self-diagnose autism and ADHD based on nothing and no context other than this growing trend to see it as trendy to be neurodivergent take it way too far and cheapen the experience of people with genuine problems. It makes a mockery of valid self-diagnosis.

[user104658]

Over-self-diagnosis and even over-diagnosis clinically is a bit of a bugbear of mine... it's badly skewing public perception and even professional perception. Nothing quite like having to explain that your child is "actually significantly disabled" when people assume that it means they're just "a bit quirky and obsessed with special interests" etc.

[Redway]

https://youtu.be/RB6gV14eir8?si=RFE8TY74aoTgjueT

I’d wager a guess that there are more narcissists with ADHD (which can give them a certain orgasmic intensity when it comes to smear-campaign and malignant gossip) than victims of narcissistic abuse who present with ADD complexes but then I’m especially careful about not inherently over-pathologising the victims of narcissistic abuse/chronic gaslighting. A lot of people just don’t know or understand the full extent of the seriousness of ‘interpersonal toxicity’ and narcissism.

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Redway

https://youtu.be/61jbsio1vhM?si=Foc1O_QcuODrtmfE

Anyone who’s got any experience using core MAOIs (so not moclobemide; more like phenelzine/tranylcypromine), by the way, feel free to come through and share your experiences. Do you operate under Ken Gillman’s system of adding a norepinephrine reuptake-enhancer (like desipramine/nortriptyline/lofepramine) to your regime so you don’t have to worry much about tyramine in any food or do you just wing it and hope for the best/no hypertensive-crisis reaction to what you eat and drink? Or do you actually follow the strict official guidelines to the letter?

Anyone?