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Diagnosis - How many identify?

Posted by Dinah on September 13, 2009, at 10:39:07

I was thinking about my therapist's list of diagnoses for me. And about my own diagnosis for myself. While it isn't in the DSM, for reasons I do not fully understand, I don't think it's all that unusual. From whatever confluence of genetics, prenatal environment, and childhood environment and stressors, I have a hyperreactive nervous system. All the things he listed are either ways I cope with that, or effects of that.

From what I can tell, it often comes not only with anxiety or mood disorders, but also with irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, and other physical conditions. What used to be considered somatization in the old days is recognized by doctors like my fabulous neurologist as conditions that all have a common cause, and are all related to the same neurochemicals that influence mood and anxiety. It's not all in the mind, but it may be in the neurochemistry.

I can't believe that mental health practitioners and doctors alike don't see that this is a separate identifiable diagnosis. One that may sound suspiciously like the old "neurotic" but a valid one in a biological sense. If they saw it this way, couldn't they then do more research that is to the point? Why separate the brain and the IBS and the migraines and have each seen separately. My neurologist recognized the common thread that lies through them. And from the look in my internist's eyes when he asks me every time I see him if I'm still in therapy, and looks very relieved when I say yes, your average doctor likely at least recognizes the syndrome if not the biological underpinnings. Actually, all my doctors do that - even my gynecologist, and even when I don't do anything that I can identify as odd during a visit.

Would any of you identify as having hyperreactive nervous systems? And things like IBS or migraines that are associated with them?

 

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