Yes Clinte they can and do help sometimes ( eh, my dr's never said my bad ), but what I am saying is it's more about what they don't tell you than what they do. I have yet to have a psychiatrist, tell me that the chemical theory in Bipolar is just that a theory, they often present it as fact. It might be an accepted theory, but it's still a theory. I think it's pretty important for Pdocs not to spread misinformation, they do have more power and authority in the dr. patient relationship, they need to use that wisely.

The other thing is, how many people are sitting in a pdocs office, told they are Bipolar and sent out of the office with a script and not much more of an explanation than that. I remember quite well how my diagnoses went down. If I was lucky I might have got a a simple one or two paragraph photocopied sheet very vaguely explaining the illness.

If you got dx'd with a physical disease, one that would effect the rest of your life, and one that required a lot of life changes and monitoring, I think you would be offered information before you walked out the door with your new pills. We see posts here all the time with new dx's and they have been given little info let alone for a big part even been told why that dx was made.

There are some I am sure who do not take this route in patient care, but it is common enough that I agree it needs to be put out there.