scared and wondering, how could a dx help?

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i'm not dx'd, but after reading descriptions, diagnostic criteria and taking the aspie-quiz i have no doubts i have asperger's. i'm going to bring it up to my t wednesday, which i'm nervous about.
but what i'm really wondering is, how could a dx help? what could it give me apart from all the things i've tried before for treatment for depression, loneliness, being suicidal?
honestly, i feel really hopeless. i can't imagine being able to get out of this solitary state, which is so unbearable. i do want to die, just cease to exist. but i'm not dead yet, and i'm still wishing for some real hope. do you have any for me?

a dx won't change who you are. But it might help figure out why you are the way you are and how you can progress.

If I may ask a question, what do they do to diagnose you? Do they ask you a series of question regarding your life?

It is far more complex than that and if you have some good doctors (usually two will be involved to back check each other) it will take a week if the time is compressed and you will take a battery of computer based tests and several very in-depth interviews and a lot of casual interviews. In some cases you might be asked to have some brain scans done but this is not usual.

If you have an AS diagnosis they can give you a different kind of help, help that might suit you better than the help you got from your depression diagnosis.

I only got diagnosed more recently (having worked out with the aid of my family that I had AS) and although it hasn't made a major difference, it has helped me come to terms with myself.

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