wow, I hope to G-d no one was dumb enough to give you a doctorate in clinical psychology.
Yeah lol, whatever you do, don't be a psychologist.
wow, I hope to G-d no one was dumb enough to give you a doctorate in clinical psychology.
CAFFEINE! Lotsa caffeineFuse26:
What does your brain suck?
If your not officially diagnosed then that means that your self diagnosed.
If your not officially diagnosed by a doctor then you don't have it.
If your not officially diagnosed then that means that your self diagnosed.
If your not officially diagnosed by a doctor then you don't have it.
Wait, I'm a mutant???Yes you do need an education you mutant!
Wait, I'm a mutant???
I want my special powers now!
Right now the only special power I have is bloviating too much on the internet...
(I also want to look hot in skintight clothing too...apparently another mutant power...)
Basically, I don't have insurance, I have a lot more burning mental issues than my attention difficulties, and even if I had good insurance, the PTSD is a confounding factor that would make DX-ing me difficult.
As far as living with your problem, if you aren't good at faking it by now you never will be.
With all the medical information we already have from billions of people going to millions of doctors. You would think a diagnostic program could be written that would be damn close to being 100% accurate or at least better that going through a long diagnostic process with a doctor. At the very least the doctors should have access to this type of program. Input your symptoms and output the top 5 best probabilities of what your problem is. We all know once a program is started it only gets better over time. I can think of a lot of reasons why we don't have this program yet, and none of them has anything to do with helping people have healthier lives.
There is of course a mixture of problems with a program making the decision.
There is the point that it might claim you have a diagnosis you disagree with, but since the program is assumed to be infallible, you can't argue with it's results.
The more likely point you didn't want to mention is the sudden decrease in the need for medical health professionals, after all if the robot can do it, why would we need them? (I guess it would definitely undermine their self-imposed state of hierarchy that can equal that of a high court judge)
Question...how likely is it that we will find a way to improve our brains' cognitive power by adding artificial hardware?
I know that's a truly wacky question, but...well, I've got a diagnosed learning disability in math. I can't do it as well, as fast, as accurately as normal people.
And it's what's called spatial dyscalculia...which means that I have to consciously figure out which way is right and left every...freaking...time. This gets very obnoxious under a car. It helps that one of my arms is plated together.
So, between that and my inability to do something as simple as, say, operate a cash register accurately, or read a dial clock just by looking at it...well I've had fantasies of someone installing hardware in my head to finally allow me to master something that my brain seems resolutely determined not to process well, if at all.
It's not just an awful inconvenience...it actively forces me out of the hard sciences entirely, because I can't handle the math. As it is I have serious doubts that I'll be able to complete a degree-if I didn't I'd drop down to a part-time job and go to school full-time, loans all the way...I've dropped-while-flunking a remedial class twice-it's a prealgebra class...and so I don't know how many tries I'm going to need to get through stats and algebra 1. Probably at least three.
But if I don't get a Master's I'll never pay off those loans, and if I fail to graduate due to math, I'll have a student loan debt follow me around for the rest of my life-I have friends in that boat.
This is why I take a class or two a semester and stay out of debt.
So my learning disability is one big albatross. I hate it with a deep, enduring passion. If there were some way to not have it anymore...I would totally let someone put hardware in or install a port surgically.
I'm sure there'd be a risk of death...if I could get rid of my learning disability, I'd roll those dice.
ARBEIT MACHT IN FREI
'Work sets you free' or 'work liberates'.
Must have been slightly changed in the translation, but my English Grandfather was fond of reminding us grandchildren that 'Anything worth doing, is worth doing well.' The result is that I am slightly Obsessive/Compulsive, yet this has been an asset in my job, which requires attention to detail.
Chimkin. stop crying.
I finished my college in 6 years going at night , I had to support a wife which had some mental problem, I hardly could speak English, I worked full time , I just did not have the time to look nor think at my problem you just go forward and don't think to much . Remember ARBEIT MACHT IN FREI