there are obviously plenty of medical issues that are self diagnosed and totally fine, but some things are required to be seen be a professional and officially diagnosed through a process before you run around telling everyone you have it.
there are obviously plenty of medical issues that are self diagnosed and totally fine, but some things are required to be seen be a professional and officially diagnosed through a process before you run around telling everyone you have it.
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I agree with this. Somebody who’s comfortable blabbering about a serious medical condition that they can’t fully confirm to have, is just a mindless attention seeker.
How else will they sympathy for their undiagnosed illnesses if they don’t just make an uneducated assumption about their health?
I wouldn’t say this is an unpopular opinion. I’d take it one step further and say the medical system is deeply flawed and many looking for a diagnosis will ultimately find one regardless of actual illness. Not to dismiss others.
What medical issues do you think it’s ok to self diagnose? Unless you’re a doctor how about don’t just guess or proclaim to have something just because it’s trendy.
After the 30th person bringing it up out of the blue (one of which including a therapist) I just kinda go “I’ve never been diagnosed with anything, so you can’t prove anything!” But we’re all pretty sure.
Why get an official credentialed diagnosis for anything when there are so many medical professionals on Reddit who can diagnose illnesses just by reading your comments and offering their opinions about everything.
My biggest pet peeve is people who diagnose themselves with autism, claim the community, and claim they can’t seek a real diagnosis because it’s expensive. I get that, but autism can also be any number of other things, and here you are trying to insert yourself in a community that may not even be yours. Tiktok is terrible with this.
Doctors don’t bother for an official diagnosis unless they can make big bucks on you. They’ll just let you get another test with another doctor for years. Now my gp finally found it and i should see a specialist but i refuse to go to another hospital appointment when i’m not losing a limb.
No one should self diagnose, you can recognize the symptoms on yourself but you need to go to a professional in order to be diagnosed. Unless you are certified on the healthcare area, you are not equipped to self diagnose.
even cooler: don’t go around telling everyone your diagnoses. unless you’re conveying useful information, it’s unnecessary and annoying at this point
Without a diagnosis from a doctor, you don’t have one.