To think I don’t have a mental illness

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I’m diagnosed with traits of eupd, re current depressive disorder and autism. I mainly get bad thoughts if something has gone wrong very occasionally random particularly at night. I’m on anti depressant and anti psychotic so I don’t know if it’s that or if it’s all wrong.

I have EUPD (though I refer to it's other name, BPD). I struggled alot when I was first diagnosed and that is totally normal.

I'm not sure what your question is but there are a number of us that use MN, so we are here to hand hold when you need.

Depressive disorder is certainly a mental illness. Autism isn't, and many people argue over whether BPD is or not.
What matters is that you are getting the right support.

I think the social construct of labelling distress is awful and archaic. There’s a great website www.madinamerica.com that is driving the change in the way distress is viewed. Even the world health organisation has released a white paper recently urging healthcare workers to abandon and move away from the medical model of mental illness towards a more trauma informed approach. I think you are right to question the labels that someone who has probably only met you for less than an hour has given you.

Nobody gets diagnosed with EUPD after an hour. It's a complex and serious MH issue.

If you have depression and EUPD, severe enough to be prescribed antipsychotics, then yes, you do have a mental illness. They don’t get prescribed for no reason.

It’s nothing to be ashamed of and there is no reason to argue with your diagnosis. It is what it is. It’s a health condition like any other.

Agree with this.

Autism is a type of neurological wiring.

BPD is commonly thought of as a personality disorder but trains of thought differ.

I have worked in mental health for decades and have never met anyone where asking the question ‘what has happened to you?’ Doesn’t help to understand them and their distress better than asking ‘what is wrong with you?’

Mental health diagnoses are just descriptions of clusters of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that often come together and do not stand up to rigorous scientific scrutiny.

A mental health diagnosis says nothing about the root cause of the distress. They can sometimes be a useful short hand. For example ‘I have BPD’ is a lot shorter than saying something like ‘My emotional needs weren’t met as a child and I therefore sometimes struggle to manage the strong emotions i experience which leads me to… etc’.

The main thing to ask yourself is how you want to live your life, what matters most to you and how you can work towards living in way that encompasses what matters most to you. That might be helped along by talking therapies and/or certain medications but really the labels don’t matter too much and you don’t need them to learn about and understand yourself better.

Good luck. 💐

What you shouldn’t do, of course, is come off the meds. Always check with your doctor first.

It's literally called borderline personality disorder..