Posted by pegasus on January 16, 2012, at 8:46:11
In reply to Re: Suicidal but not depressed - whats going on?, posted by icubaby on January 16, 2012, at 0:12:37
First off, I'm worried about your suicidal urges. Are you seeing someone to help you with those? Are the urges pretty serious? Do you have a suicide plan that you're considering? Please keep yourself safe.
Suicidal urges are not an official criteria for diagnosing PTSD according to the DSM IV (the diagnostic bible for mental disorders).
Suicidal urges are an official criteria for diagnosing depression, though.
Do you have other symptoms?
You know, diagnosing people for mental stuff is not like diagnosing people for medical stuff. No one has a firm understanding of the causes of mental diagnoses, so it's all just based on symptoms, which vary a lot from person to person. There is a ton of debate about the best way to even define different diagnoses. So, some people think it's not all that helpful to put a diagnosis on a mental condition. It might just be making something that we don't understand seem more understandable. Which has dubious value, you know?
So, when it sounds like you're trying to find a diagnosis for what you feel, I wonder what you're hoping that will do to help you? Are you trying to figure out what kind of help to seek?
- peg
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