   ((((Berries)))) - I hate to see you all worked up and playing the "what if" game - it always ties you in knots. There is very good reason to look forward to the neuro-psych testing. Yes, some of your diagnoses may change - not because you have been faking - not because you were misdiagnosed in the past necessarily - but because during the past 20 years, the fields of psychiatry and neuro-psychiatry have advanced so much. For example, before the discovery of diabetes, many people who had diabetes were institutionalized as schizophrenics. Those who were re-evaluated and found to have diabetes and received the appropriate treatment were then freed from those institutions and were able to live relatively normal lives. As knowledge and understanding progress in both physical and psychiatric medicine, various diseases and conditions are "resorted" and even renamed so that appropriate treatment is provided to the patient. Your retesting and re-evaluation is a very, very good thing (((((Berries))))) - they may be able to better pinpoint the real causes of your problems and provide new meds and treatments to address them more appropriately according to current knowledge. Just because your diagnoses may change to some degree, it just means you are being diagnosed and treated more appropriately possibly with different meds and maybe even a different direction in therapy. This truly is something to look forward to having done. Please try to relax and see this as the good thing that it is. Let us know how things are progressing.
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"I walked a mile with Pleasure; she chattered all the way, But left me none the wiser for all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow and ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her when Sorrow walked with me!"
(Robert Browning Hamilton; "Along The Road")
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