What disorders did you diagnose yourself with in Nursing School?

[BostonTerrierLover]

I have to give credit to a great Allnurses.com member "Been There, Done That," for inspiring this thread. After reading that great thread, . . . It hit me! Lol, I thought back to Nursing School.

BTDT was totally correct, after being sick off and on my first year of nursing with my first case of the Flu, late life chicken Pox (I was 19!), and a case of Laryngitis I never again got sick. I guess the bugs really did strengthen my immune systems past the normal "non-clinical-population."

But now, what about Nursing School during the Disease Processes, or just Nursing School in general! How many symptoms looked just like some horrid disease process? Now, I know we can't and shouldn't even try to diagnose disease, conditions, or disorders (although I know we are guilty of this in our heads and diagnosing ourselves).

What Diseases/Disorders did YOU think you might have in Nursing School?

Bostons List: DM/Hypothyroidism/ADD/IBS or Crohns/

Alzheimers/General Anxiety Disorder/OCD

Insomnia/and of course: Pyschosomatic Hypochondrias

I'm still to shy to list the group from Grad School, that list is "G" Rated. LOL! But, Thank goodness, it was temporary too!

Lol, No, I have never been Medically diagnosed with any of these, but you catch my drift. . . What did you "Temporary Illness" did you suffer from as a student?

[Morainey, BSN, RN]

Garden-variety chronic low-grade depression, and a mild anxiety disorder. Real talk: Abnormal Psychology was an eye-opener.

Although, because I'm getting kinda skinny, I can feel my pulse in my abdomen and am vaguely nervous that it's an AAA

[ProArizona]

Many of my classmates self-diagnosed and/or "diagnosed" their children. Of course there were several who no matter what condition or rare disease process had personal experience with the condition and/or a friend/family member/third cousin's mother's uncle's best friend's chihuahua had the condition. Boils became MRSA or VRSA, headaches became aneurysms or brain tumors; coughs became pertussis or TB.

I think staring at my textbooks induced some hallucinogenic disorders (I am a compulsive reader and yes I think I am the only student who actually read every single page in each of my nursing text books in the history of my school) If even slightly tired I would misread words, and sometimes say it out loud in a questioning manner. Not always such a good idea when misreading powerpoints in class...at least my classmates and instructors got a good laugh.

My PCP was a nurse before she went to medical school, when I saw her right before graduation she commented that she was surprised that I didn't make a few calls to the office to be checked for any number of nursing school hypochondriac conditions.

Too funny, I can say the more I read the diseases I thought I had as well. I read all my books too. Keep in mind "ignorance is bliss". I started out in ICU, the more you know the more stress you can be.

I was caring for a fresh open heart, the CI/CO started to drop over a 24 hour period, you name it and I knew that was what was happening to the patient.

The surgeon said "lay off the books for a month and rely on your colleagues." I did and after a while the three pillars of knowledge built a foundation, 1. University education, 2. Clinical skills, and 3. Collegial relationships.