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Originally Posted by rosesarered
Last year when my mental health room center stage and I started taking meds for the first time, the first psychiatrist I saw put in my file I'm bipolar. He never told me. And so when the clinic I was referred to asked what my diagnosis was I just said depression, and I think it got changed in my file. Now I'm afraid to ask. Its not like a name will change what I go through, its just this limbo makes me feel like I'm out in left field by myself.
I'm on mood stabilizers and an antidepressant. They don't give those to people who suffer from just major depression do they?
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It's better to go with the doctors diagnoses that way you will get the right meds for it. I was diagnosed bipolar 1 back in 1997 and now have a paper trail a mile long about it. It helps to have a paper trail with the correct diagnoses. Go with bipolar since the doctor wrote that down.
Having a diagnoses of just plain depression is too broad and will be harder to get the right meds for. The bipolar diagnoses narrows it down to a treatable point with a reference. Hang in there.
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