I've been thinking for a while that these labels are rubbish, dependent on the meanings we give them. I see both mood and psychotic symptoms on a spectrum (like a graph with mood symptoms on the y axis and psychotic symptoms on the x axis in the middle) and that it's very hard to put each plot in a certain box. Psychiatry is seriously limited and all they have in their arsenal is medication, that doesn't help me and others, or has unbearable side effects. The major limitations of psychiatry are what made me leave medicine and switch to psychology. I see why psychiatry needs these boxes in order to ascertain prognosis and treatments for each box, but you're pretty screwed if you don't fit neatly in one or the other.

I'm actually pretty hopeless right now. All I have is a pdoc and medications that don't work. There is no therapy, and the psychoeducation project they've spent the therapy money on is a joke!! I have a pdoc appt tomorrow, but all I can think is 'what is the point?'

*Willow*