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Originally Posted by Lily
Can someone please help me. One of my specialists, who is not a psychiatrist, took it on to himself to diagnose me with somatoform disorder because I had already been diagnosed with bipolar. I already had an existing diagnosis of autoimmune thyroid, a low positive ANA, a slight erythemous rash, irritable bowel, raynaud's, and then found out that I have mild glucose intolerance and conjunctivitis from peripheral nerve involvment. My skin is stretchy and loose. The same physician also suggested in his notes that I might possibly have Ehlers Danlos, a genetic connective tissue disorder, or scleroderma. How on earth is it possible that somatoform disorder can be diagnosed at the same time that other disabling illnesses might be present? Has anyone ever heard of this? I had thought that only a psychiatrist with a PhD could do such a diagnosis by excluding organic pathology. Please someone let me know. I could not get a referral to any specialist. No one would even let me in the door. It seemed to be a mechanism to write me off.
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A doctor with a Ph.D., ABPN I was diagnosed with it and after reading about it and trying to understand it, it kind of makes sense....we have this pain...then we get stressed or our thoughts get out of wack and our bodies or I should say brains can't deal with it all. My doctor described it as "your fist would be considered your "emotional" part of your brain, when your emotional stress levels get too high they have to go somewhere, then he put his other hand on top of his fist like a half moon...he started to stretch out his fist showing me that the emotional stress is being released into the physical body causing "symptoms"...it's all do to how much stress your emotional "brain" can handle and what your individual stress level is. When the emotional stress is released into the "physical" part of the brain that sends all kinds of things to the physical body, like pain, some symptoms like you described, then the physical part of the brain can forward the stress to your auditory system etc. My impression is that it's an emotional stress thing. I hope this helps you understand what I've been told. beenthere