CullenSch

Thanks for the very helpful post! What do you mean by AD? I am 15 right now, so it is impossible for me to be a part of the military. Additionally, it will definitely be 2 years since treatment. Anyways, I have ceased going to any therapist or mental health care because both the "second opinion" therapist and my mother has deemed it unnecessary or at the very least, not wholly necessary. (In complete truth, the therapist said something along the lines of 'Almost anybody can benefit from seeing a therapist, but the decision is yours and your parent's') Anyways, if I am able to prove that I was mis-coded with dysthymic disorder, would I necessarily need to be re-diagnosed with another disorder due to the length of time I spent with a therapist? I believe that I do not have any chronic mental issues. If I do not exhibit symptoms of other disorders, would it simply go off of my medical record, or at least be noted that it was a misdiagnosis? If I can't do anything about it, dysthymic disorder isn't the worst thing to have on your record, and the statistics on waiver handouts look pretty good as well. I just want to maximize my chances.

Mothers can't diagnose, silly! :P Sorry for the ambiguity. The therapist diagnosed me with it without telling my mother or me until two years after the fact.

Problem solved