You could go to a doctor and just...lie, or regurgitate the symptoms you read for a certain mental illness and get a diagnosis of your choosing. A system like that leaves itself open to abuse or misuse by both patients and those who stand to make money off it.
Yea it's not that simple here, like at all.
Here's my journey. ( as i don't know the names of all the support people, i just rank them on numbers. u have 4 ranks of people that talk to you with the last rank ( highest being psychiatrist )
I entered the picture, because i got depressed as fuck through a ton of things going wrong while i was shrugging it off as just push through it. I started to see less and less reason to continou with life for the simple reason, i never saw a goal in moving forwards, now everybody else died on me i felt like i was just in a pauze state and couldn't really figure out how to move forwards, i ticked different then other people but i had no clue why. So i started to crash and searched help.
I started to visit a doctor, and that doctor i had 3-4 conversations with, before i got pushed to the lowest rank 1. I had conversations with that person for about ~6 months. All the conversations and the way i think, act and deal with stuff was recorded ( a thing that goes through the whole process is they ask constantly questions about your past or stuff you stated to varify if u don't lie or its true ), even the doctor recorded already on how i behaved while complete shitting the brick. we would talk about solutions, options and other stuff to get through it.
The more and more it showcased it wasn't going anywhere no matter what i tried and a ton of conversations once a week sometimes multiple times a week, i was at the end of my rope. They sended me to a crisis team, and put me under a loop for 10 days, with a rank 3 and 4 psychiatrist
, not only that they looked at me how i interacted with people, how i talked to other people, for most of the days. The lower tier 1 people would also record you in seeing how you interact with other people in that enviroment from morning to evening in extreem detail and they tell you nothing about this.
After that i got send to a team which existed out of rank 1,2,3,4 that is allocated towards my living area, a whole new group of people and they will start the process again, i will have every 6 weeks a conversation with psychiatrist, sometimes 1-2 weeks when things get critical, rank 1 would visit me every 2 weeks once and keep in contact through whatsapp, and rank 2, would visit me 2-3 times a week. After they gathered enough information, throughout months of talking with multiple people, rank 3 arrives to the picture that's going to diagnose you. he will have 6-8 long talks with you of multiple hours about your past, about what u do etc etc. He will cross reference this with the other recorded material, and then dig into your past and contact friends/family/schools and ask them a arrays of questions. This process takes months on it's own.
They will see through your shit, without problems. After everything checks out, the 2,3 and 4 comes together and diagnose you with what u got. And then they drop a massive document on you with everything from all experts what they recorded, that document was in my case 60 pages long and took well over a year of talking and i was absolutely shocked how detailed that shit was.
The only pills they subscribed me where, really low tier sleeping pills as my sleeping schedule was fucked entirely and anti depressive for a while, but i am off of that stuff before the shit ended. The tier 2 people are still visiting me 1 time a week and every 6 weeks i still got a simple talk with a psychiatrist about how i feel and how stuff goes and if things need to change. rank 3 person is now planning me in once a week to get additional training to deal with autism etc.
So yea its a long traject and as i am insured i pay absolute dick shit for me, besides a ton of time i gotta spend on it.
