Posted by TherapyGirl on September 14, 2006, at 21:24:26
In reply to day #3, posted by wishingstar on September 13, 2006, at 20:03:18
I just wanted to pipe in here:
First of all, thank you so much for sharing all this with us. I think it's very helpful and I am intensely interested in what is going on with you, even though I don't post very often.
Second of all, I got cold chills when I just read what you wrote about the pdoc trying to tell you that you're bipolar. Ten years ago, I was hospitalized twice in 5 months. There is only one private hospital in this area and that's where I went. The first time I was hospitalized, they CONVINCED me that I was bipolar and put me on a bunch of drugs. By the second hospitalization, I was slightly suspicious that an awful lot of my fellow patients seemed to be newly diagnosed as bipolar. I swear to you, EVERY SINGLE person on the ward with me was "bipolar." I'm not saying some of them weren't, but I just can't believe that ALL of us were. And I now know that I'm not. It's true that my brain reacts VERY, VERY badly to antidepressants. But other than that, I don't have a single symptom of bipolar.
All of that is just to say, go with your gut, sweetie. The "experts" don't know everything -- and some of them don't seem to know anything.
I'm thinking about you...
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