Asmo: Mental Health Specialist
Dec. 19th, 2024 10:38 amSilly me, forgot why we don't really trust mental health workers,and confessed a lot of stuff to our schools mental health specialist.
Only helpful things that came out of it were:
-Paperwork
-New anxiety calming technique?
The paperwork is a therapy thing. Apparently the school offers 5-6 sessions of free therapy for students, which you have to be eligible for, but still. She did this mostly in an attempt to make us get diagnosed with things.
However, she wasn't very pleasant talking about these things, especially OSDD. She also called our self-diagnosis of autism "inappropriate". After we explained why we've done that.
-autism in the family
-years of research
-we have a LOTTTTT of the symptoms and they SHOW
-we've done the RAADS-R(?) test like 3 times and every time its been just 20-30 points away from the highest possible scoring. I know the RAADS-R test isn't the most insanely credible diagnosis type thing, but we feel that its a good step in getting the whole "okay I do/don't need to care about this" sense around autism, y'know?
We explained/debunked a lot of the common misconceptions around OSDD/DID and she still persisted with them. She also asked what we've gotten our information and research from, which is fine, but when we tried explaining that they're from credible sources and NOT Google, she told me all about how "there's a difference between research from Google and research from real scientific texts".
Oh well. Sorry for the rant, its midterms time and Im just having a not so fun day I guess.
Only helpful things that came out of it were:
-Paperwork
-New anxiety calming technique?
The paperwork is a therapy thing. Apparently the school offers 5-6 sessions of free therapy for students, which you have to be eligible for, but still. She did this mostly in an attempt to make us get diagnosed with things.
However, she wasn't very pleasant talking about these things, especially OSDD. She also called our self-diagnosis of autism "inappropriate". After we explained why we've done that.
-autism in the family
-years of research
-we have a LOTTTTT of the symptoms and they SHOW
-we've done the RAADS-R(?) test like 3 times and every time its been just 20-30 points away from the highest possible scoring. I know the RAADS-R test isn't the most insanely credible diagnosis type thing, but we feel that its a good step in getting the whole "okay I do/don't need to care about this" sense around autism, y'know?
We explained/debunked a lot of the common misconceptions around OSDD/DID and she still persisted with them. She also asked what we've gotten our information and research from, which is fine, but when we tried explaining that they're from credible sources and NOT Google, she told me all about how "there's a difference between research from Google and research from real scientific texts".
Oh well. Sorry for the rant, its midterms time and Im just having a not so fun day I guess.