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May 15, 2013, 05:48 PM
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
Posts: 1,486
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Originally Posted by Joanne3
Hi everyone,
So I just came from my Psychologist appointment and I just got diagnosed with Bi-polar Disorder. She is referring me back to my GP to get me on some medication to stabilise my mood swings from manic to severe depressive. I am relatively knew to this because its been such a taboo thing to talk about in my family. I was wondering if anyone could give me insight on life after being diagnosed bi-polar? How did you break it to your family? Was it hard to adjust to life and being on the medication? If anyone has severe depression and anxiety like me, when you were diagnosed did it help you fix the anxiety?
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Welcome!
I don't know what country you come from, but here usually psychiatrists (not psychologists) diagnose and prescribe the medications -I'm curious why you were referred to your GP instead of a psychiatrist for meds? As someone else said, I'm of the mind that psychiatrists know so much more than GP's and are the best to prescribe these types of meds, there are so many out there and it's so complicated.
As far as anxiety, I suffer from this as well. The Seroquel I take for the bipolar has ended up helping me a lot with anxiety, mostly because it's basically a gigantic sledgehammer to the head -and with a big price to pay -the side effects are terrible. So I'd only recommend it with a great deal of caution and caveats -it has helped me a lot, though, both with mania and anxiety.
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